You're right about the costs. Study after study shows that medicare is going broke because of trying to wring the last day out of people no matter in how shitty a condition they are in.
http://www.medicarenewsgroup.com/context...icy-debate
Sad to say, terminally ill ( and desperate ) patients are a cash cow to the medical industry. Weening them off of it will be a hard battle. If ( and this is a big if ) we had a government with balls it could say to a patient "look, you're going to die. Medicare will offer palliative (hospice) care but no further heroic medical procedures. If you want to find some doctor to perform whatever procedure you want, you pay for it. We're done."
And then stand back and listen to the Sarah Palin-class shitheads start shrieking about "death panels."
http://www.medicarenewsgroup.com/context...icy-debate
Quote: In 2011, Medicare spending reached close to $554 billion, which amounted to 21 percent of the total spent on U.S. health care in that year. Of that $554 billion, Medicare spent 28 percent, or about $170 billion, on patients’ last six months of life.
Sad to say, terminally ill ( and desperate ) patients are a cash cow to the medical industry. Weening them off of it will be a hard battle. If ( and this is a big if ) we had a government with balls it could say to a patient "look, you're going to die. Medicare will offer palliative (hospice) care but no further heroic medical procedures. If you want to find some doctor to perform whatever procedure you want, you pay for it. We're done."
And then stand back and listen to the Sarah Palin-class shitheads start shrieking about "death panels."
