[Cajundaddy]

As we get older, hospitals look to us as a cash cow. Medicare patients are a sure thing so they want to keep you and run lots of tests. Filling the schedule with MRI, CT, angiogram tests pays for the machines and fattens the bottom line. It's the equivalent of "would you like to supersize it" but with an added penalty that if you say no you have to sign out AMA to avoid a bunch of expensive and often unnecessary testing.

I am a pretty big advocate of modern diagnostic testing when you have clear symptoms of disease but if they want to go on a fishing expedition... no thanks.