Why your eye surgeon wants you to get a multifocal lens that Medicare won't cover for your cataracts

Hint: there's roughly a 98-99% gross profit margin from factory to doctor's office.

Get ready an up-close-and-personal look at the economics of one corner of modern American medicine.

Hope you have a barf bag handy.

Two weeks ago, I posted about an ophthalmologist who pushed my mother to have cataract surgery for $5,000 to $9,000 per eye though she had no real vision problems. Some of you asked why she was being told to pay so much. Afte…