An Inside Look at Health Care for the Elderly and Medicare

In a front page article, multiple major newspapers (including the Washington Post and New York Times) cite the results of an NIH study declaring that people over the age of 50 will benefit dramatically from lowering their blood pressure below 120 using aggressive drug treatment. The article has yet to be published, but, according to those the press interviewed, the results are both definitive and life saving. But do we know that? So many prior studies of the elderly have s