Medicare is not free for most people. If you are on SSI, social security may pay your medicare premiums, like they do for me, but usually if you make enough money they will make you pay for medicare. I don't know how to get rid of it though, aside from not being disabled anymore. Once social security knows my husband is working, and they take me off SSI (while still receiving disability) they will probably make me pay my medicare premiums again, which is over $100 a month.