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Ok I guess only someone who sighed up for Obamacare could answer this question

Re: Ok I guess only someone who SIGNed-up for Obamacare could answer this question

ttwtt78640 said:
Liberty is not achieved by demanding a subsidy.
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I never said it was. I was merely talking about end of life care. You basically said extending life was wasteful, my position is, people should be free to make that decision on their own.
 
Re: Ok I guess only someone who SIGNed-up for Obamacare could answer this question

countryboy said:
I never said it was. I was merely talking about end of life care. You basically said extending life was wasteful, my position is, people should be free to make that decision on their own.
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Except that decision is not free - medical care requires payment. Extending life is not wasteful if there is a reasonable expectation of recovery but that is too often not the case.
 
Re: Ok I guess only someone who SIGNed-up for Obamacare could answer this question

ttwtt78640 said:
One big problem with health care spending is that a lot of it is spent simply (and briefly) delaying the inevitable (often called "end of life" care) - everyone will eventually die (of something). Getting folks to accept that basic fact and not calling it "death panels" prevents us from accepting a diagnosis of "totaled". Preventive care is not super expensive and (most) folks manage to afford it for their cars and homes without help from insurance or government middle men.

The Cost of Dying - CBS News
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Yeah.. Just to point out that there is just a bit of BS in these statistics. When a patient comes in with acute myocardial infarction.. you try to save their life. If 5 days later they die.. well guess what? that gets put in the " the most money spent near the end of life".

Do you really want me to decide that "screw it.. why try".

When only 5 percent of those that come in like that will die.. while the rest will live another 5 years or more?

That's why a lot of these statistics need to be taken with a grain of salt.

OF COURSE the most expensive care is in that last days of life... WE ARE TRYING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE... and that gets expensive.

Do you really want a government official with an calculator telling a practitioner that saving your loved ones life is going to be too expensive.. so never mind?

What do you think is going to happen with that?
 
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