An Inside Look at Health Care for the Elderly and Medicare

Before we can fully understand why medical dogma has gone so far astray, and why Medicare’s quality indicators push us to purse a costly and aggressive medical course that has not been shown to be beneficial to the elderly, we need to take a step back and talk about something called relative risk/benefit. So much of what we know about the efficacy of tests and treatments is built upon a faulty foundation that has led to erroneous and often dangerous conclusions. That is bec