It's fairly unlikely many folks are managing to get Medicare to cover children's formula and diapers.

They use CareSource to be exact but it provides public health care programs including Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace. My wife works with a few people who do these kinds of things. They use ambulances like a personal taxi service. If they can get a dr to say the kid has a rash, they will get "prescribed" a few boxes of special diapers.

You're likely referring to Medicaid, then, not Medicare.

Can't say I'm too fussed about impoverished people getting a few boxes of diapers, and using ambulances for transit reveals an underlying societal problem more than individual greed.

Yup.

If people are willing to go through that much trouble just to get from A to B or to save a few dollars on diapers, there's something wrong.

They're investing hours and go through quite a hassle just to possibly save single digit amounts of dollars.

You don't do this if you don't think you have to.

I don't really care as a whole, I'm glad there's a stop gap for the people who would genuinely need this. My complaint is mostly the people I know personally who are doing this. Both families are not broke, and could be doing better if the father actually worked.

The ambulance rides do tie up the system however. I have a cousin who is an EMT and between rescuing overdoses he has regulars they have to taxi because they have a cold, or something else trivial. There is public transportation, but even that would cost them personally and requires waiting. It's probably better to let a few selfish people take advantage of the system in the long run, but it amazes me how selfish some people can be when there's people in real need out there.