The elephant in the room, unfortunately when it comes to Medicare is the tremendous amount spent per patient in the last six months of life.
http://www.thirteen.org/bid/sb-howmuch.html
However, it is impossible to have an adult conversation about the topic because as soon as you bring it up, some idiot.... let's make up a name....
starts shrieking "DEATH PANELS!! DEATH PANELS!!!"
Then, add on the fucking jesus freaks...like these catholic shits....
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congre...sa_en.html
Odd doctrine coming from an organization which had to change its name from the Inquisition, huh? If only they would have been so concerned with life while they were flaying heretics.
Still, how do you deal with psychos like this?
http://www.thirteen.org/bid/sb-howmuch.html
Quote: It's not surprising that individuals in their last year of life consume a disproportionate share of medical resources. One percent of the population accounts for 30 percent of the nation's health care expenditures. Nearly half of those people are elderly.
Medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly, spends nearly 30 percent of its budget on beneficiaries in their final year of life. Slightly more than half of Medicare dollars are spent on patients who die within two months
However, it is impossible to have an adult conversation about the topic because as soon as you bring it up, some idiot.... let's make up a name....
starts shrieking "DEATH PANELS!! DEATH PANELS!!!"
Then, add on the fucking jesus freaks...like these catholic shits....
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congre...sa_en.html
Quote:Second question: When nutrition and hydration are being supplied by artificial means to a patient in a “permanent vegetative state”, may they be discontinued when competent physicians judge with moral certainty that the patient will never recover consciousness?
Response: No. A patient in a “permanent vegetative state” is a person with fundamental human dignity and must, therefore, receive ordinary and proportionate care which includes, in principle, the administration of water and food even by artificial means.
Odd doctrine coming from an organization which had to change its name from the Inquisition, huh? If only they would have been so concerned with life while they were flaying heretics.
Still, how do you deal with psychos like this?