Talk to the Hand: Medicare abuses

Posted Sep 23, 2014 04:31:03 PM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 — Ed Hand speaks with Dr. Brett Belchetz, an emergency room physician who penned a column for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He argues for changes to discourage patients shopping around for prescriptions or diagnoses.

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