Curing Medicare
A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It
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Lazris, a primary care geriatric physician and medical director at facilities for the frail elderly, advocates a minimalist approach to medical intervention for many chronic health problems of advanced age, including dementia. He argues that Medicare's outdated payment rules and assumptions about life expectancy are financing an interminable search for eternal life instead of ensuring that Medicare pays for long-term 'palliative’ care, ideally at home. With an insider’s view, the author does an excellent job of diagnosing pervasive problems in the Medicare system. A fascinating look at how Medicare must change.
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Lazris offers straightforward solutions to ensure Medicare's solvency through sensible cost-effective plans that do not restrict patient choice or negate the doctor-patient...
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 264
- ISBN
- 9781501702778
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
Lazris, a primary care geriatric physician and medical director at facilities for the frail elderly, advocates a minimalist approach to medical intervention for many chronic health problems of advanced age, including dementia. He argues that Medicare's outdated payment rules and assumptions about life expectancy are financing an interminable search for eternal life instead of ensuring that Medicare pays for long-term 'palliative’ care, ideally at home. With an insider’s view, the author does an excellent job of diagnosing pervasive problems in the Medicare system. A fascinating look at how Medicare must change.
» Kirkus Reviews