I may be cynical but in my opinion rarely does the government do anything sensible and in the order in which it should be done. For instance, Medicare in the past has only covered smoking cessation counselling if the patient had already been diagnosed with a tobacco related disease or already had symptoms of such a disease. Seems a bit backwards to me.

But alas, the Dept. of Health and Human Services has announced that Medicare will now begin covering counselling for smoking for all Medicare patients! They must have done this by mistake but we’ll all hope that they don’t notice. This will be an excellent partner to the fact that Medicare Part D prescription drug plans already cover prescription smoking medications. bjmdjd

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