"by law to restrict treatments, ask seniors to pay more, or raise taxes or the retirement age"So, one choice across the board lower payments for Medicare, kind of like Medicaid, which very few doctors take right now.
Ah well, who said elected officials can design a system that that technocrats can implement in a good way.
I can deal (not be happy) with a system that actually tries to look at cost effectiveness, at least theoretically, but it doesn't look like that is what was implemented.
