• Scott@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    My grandmother actually believes that this “med bed” bullshit is real. It’s not going to do anything.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 hours ago

      It’s not going to do anything.

      I bet it will do one thing: Separate idiots from their money. There will inevitably be scammers who target the elderly, claiming that their medbed card was delayed because they owe back taxes. Now they need to go buy $5000 in Target gift cards, or else they’ll never be able to access their medbed.

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        18 hours ago

        Not just the elderly, there’s a LOT of chronically and terminally ill people who fall for these scams because at some point, there’s a lot of people who are willing to flail your arms and try anything, regardless of how dumb it sounds, rather than having to hear the doctors say “well we can try X for 3 weeks and see what we get out of it” for the 50th time.