The revised Medicare law not all it is cracked up to be.

The main focus of the law was to prevent cuts to Dr's payments to prevent them from ditching Medicare patients. We are also told that it will pay for checkups. Unfortunately there is little data to show routine check-up make a difference to patients' health (although it improves Dr's income) once they have had an initial screening. It would have been better to pay for counselling about adverse behaviors such as failing to take prescribed medicines correctly.