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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Do you really think people will choose to die if heart bypass operations are no longer provided by Medicare? Currently, Medicare pays for Dr. Dean Ornish's lifestyle program to reverse coronary artery disease. They pay for it because it works. And the cost is only a small fraction of what it costs for bypass surgery. But it's not well known and it's not widely available across the U.S.
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Many people do not have TIME to do the "lifestyle program" when they're in the ER having, or are about to have, a heart attack.