Will Medicare patients be left out of the bionics revolution?
The dawn of the Bionic Man is upon us. Bionic eyes help the blind to see and bionic ears allow the deaf to hear. Bionic limbs let the armless man reach and grasp and bionic legs have helped a fallen woman walk, and even dance again. Millions have watched dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis, who lost a foot in the Boston Marathon bombing last year, perform for the first time since the terrorist attack as part of the 2014 TED conference. But if Haslet-Davis had relied on Medicare for her health insurance, she would have been denied access to the revolutionary prosthesis made by Bedford’s BiOM…Read More