Curing Medicare : : A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It / / Andy Lazris.
Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a...
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