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Health care costs, terminal illnesses with poor quality of life, and prolonging life in the U.S.

02/25/2012

The cost to Medicare of prolonging life when there is little or no hope and quality of life has deteriorated upto a point where the patient gains little from extending life for a few months. Estimates show a large part of Medicare, as much as third takes place in the last year of life, and a large part of that in the last month. With the option of cutting Medicare services or dismantling Medicare as it was known in the years since 1950 because of spiralling costs, this is an issue that needs to be addressed for Medicare solutions.

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