Currently, Medicare does cover nonemergent transports. The POINT is that Medicare beneficiaries are having to deal with more and more cuts to their benefits package while Medicaid beneficiaries are not. And no, Medicare does not cover long term care at nursing homes (but Medicaid does), but it does currently cover transports from those facilities. Thank goodness I'm not OLD enough, as you put it, to have to worry with it, but I am concerned for my parents (hence why I'm trying to have some input---as should beneficiaries currently being impacted)!