A congressional agency on Friday recommended medicare beneficiaries should face higher upfront costs to give them a financial incentive to avoid costly and unnecessary treatments.
I only have one question.
Who is it that's going to decide what is unnecessary care? The doctors and health care providers, that derive financial incentive from prescribing that unnecessary care?
I don't think so.
The real motive behind this report is simply to get the sick to not seek care, and then in the words of Alan Grayson, "die quickly"!
Maybe a better idea, would be to advocate for the killing of all the sick and elderly. That would do much more to
insulate the popular government program from ever-rising healthcare costs.
It might also be more humane than letting the sick suffer the indignation of bankruptcy, and then being left out in the streets penny less, having to beg for help!