We signed up with one of those Medicare services, MedStar, and they've been calling up again and again to try to get me to make appointments for checkups and such. They are quite predatory about it: they actually do a single ring followed by regular rings to force our attention and interest so we'll answer the phone. I bitterly protested that in letters and calls: it's the old code family members used to use to tell family it was them calling and to pick up. Immoral.

Is that happening to anyone else? Why do they do that? They pretend it's "altruistic," but it's pretty clear they must be trying to make money off me some way. Anyone know what they are up to?