Gray Matters: Medicare oxygen policy short of breadth
Quick ReadMedicare is saving money by forgetting that taxpayers are also patients.
Like tossing out the baby with the bath water, Medicare is saving money for the taxpayers by depriving seriously ill people of life-giving oxygen, forgetting that taxpayers are also patients.
That's what made Kenneth C. Martin, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., so angry that he fired off letters to newspapers and federal lawmakers on July 10, "to make the public aware of how dangerous our Medicare system...
