This is pointing out that your doctor has to provide evidence that your congestive heart failure or diabetic neuropathy is improving or Medicare can stop paying for the medicines you are taking. This will cause your death, but it will drive down the cost of health care, one of Obama’s goals in Obamacare. The fewer sick and elderly we have around, the better for the government.
As opposed to prior, when it was medical insurance companies with access to your health records denying you coverage.
I had to take out a bankruptcy in the early 1990s because my wife at the time was hospitalized for endometriosis. The insurance company pre-qualified her for admission, and she spent two weeks inpatient in the hospital for complications.
Three months later, they retro-actively withdrew their payments, leaving us on the hook for over $85,000 in medical bills. We took it to the state insurance office, but it was argued successfully, that because she had been seen in the ER in the previous years for the same condition (horrible abdominal cramps) without proper diagnosis, it was a “pre-existing condition” and didn’t have to be covered.