Curing Medicare: A Doctor’s View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It

• Science & Health

These days, the medical culture is all about 
fixing problems.

But aging is not a disease to be cured — and aggressive treatments cannot change that fact. In actuality, it is the more limited and holistic approaches that better aid elderly patients as they adjust to their changing health. But the current system will not pay for those kinds of treatments. Hear twenty-five-year primary-doctor Andy Lazris discuss how today’s system promotes harmful overtreatment in the geriatric population and thereby instigates the very problems it seeks to remedy.