I completely agree with you, either let us pay for the MRI and procedures or shut the you-know up.  I'm sick of hearing about home care and mental illness.  I have an actual mental illness and psychologists are useless.  You can't talk away a brain disorder or chemical imbalance.  They are fine for mini-depression or "my husband doesn't pay attention to me" but nothing much else.  My treatment costs the system $150 a year not an hour.  You can go on self-help forums and get the same thing if you want counselling.   

As for home-care, I would suggest co-pays and "reality checks" for seniors, not turning the bottom 25% of all the women in the country into care workers.  No, you can't live in your home forever.  Deal with it.