Medicare treatment barely acceptable to many, says report

Is Medicare actually considered quality care by those in the know? Sure, some consider Medicare decent, but a research study just released has concluded that the quality of care is, at best, barely acceptable.

A care study that looked at the health of elders looked at 43 specific types of care received by more than 100,000 people of an average age of 81. All the subjects were from California.

The conclusions found that only 65 percent of recommended tests were given to those at risk of death or functional decline (in other words, in bad shape).