I have a big problem with congress having anything to do with any medical treatment on any level.
This stuff Grassley has hit on is the 'hot button issues' that are a safe call to bring to the public by any politician. But what he didn't go after in medicare and medicaid fraud would make these cases look like spare change.
Socialized medicine is obscene enough without having a politician publicly second guessing medical procedures (Of ANY kind) for political points.
The State programs are spending money on this claptrap because morons like Grassley didn't specifically say they couldn't be paid for with Federal Funds.
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