In other words, they are doing their best to discourage doctors from performing the procedure.
They're creating a situation where people who need medical care the most won't be able to get it. Also a situation where a truly evil doctor could benefit if the patient died of something else.
or discouraging them from replacing joints for patients who may need more care and have chances of a lesser outcome than than the “quality care” standards allow
such as elderly people
or people who qualify as “obese”
“Sorry granny, we cannot offer you this procedure
You are 80, you have osteoporosis, and if recovery takes too long you will mess up our hospital’s statistical report and Administrator Ratchet wont get her productivity bonus..”
While sitting in the stands of an athletic arena next too a high end specialist they told me with a low moral body english what is going on; They said, with low moral, Medicine sucks, Incoming PA's are getting paid more than MD's ( china's barefoot Dr's anyone ) and all we do is paperwork. I asked is this paperwork in the last 6 years? Yes... I didn't asked who they voted for and or why.....
This is all anecdotal, but I wonder how many more MD's feel the same way...
I agree 100%. This move is designed to squeeze “savings” out of Medicare, not to ensure quality care for seniors on Medicare. Older patients are going to tend to have more and more serious needs than younger ones. And they don’t tend to respond as well, or as quickly, as younger patients to major surgery and the like. That will equal a “fail” according to the bureaucrats. Doctors and hospitals will face a choice of losing money (and facing other backlash) on the procedure, or steering grandma towards the pain pill.
Yep, Obamacare has to get rid of all of those “undesirables”, e.g. elderly, young people with medical problems, and heaven knows who else would be considered a burden on Obama’s society. Why does anyone think that Obama’s society is pushing “right to life choices”. Can anyone say Nazi’s 1933? No man does not learn, that’s why history repeats itself.