I think much of this IS Obama’s fault. I mean, rather than surgery for painful problems, etc., he said that ‘maybe you just take a pain pill’. I think he said that to the woman who asked about her mother being able to receive a pacemaker at an advanced age, under his ‘health care plan’.
I know several people who are being told to have PT rather than the prescribed MRI, due to insurance. I am calling this the “Blue Pill prescription.”