> Dan wrote-
> Someone somewhere has to decide where the limit is. We cannot spend all of
> the GDP on medical care. When this happens, people get hurt and people
die.
> Since we are not up front about the costs of prolonging the last weeks of
> life, the costs gets added to the cost of everything else. And, decisions
> are made in every system, but the decision process is not up front because
> we don't want to look the problem straight in the eye.
>
I have mentioned this before and the numbers may be better now.....
Bypass surgery has not been shown to increase the "length" of a persons life,
only the quality of the life they may lead. I worry that if we just look at
"costs"/"benefits" some day some goofy insurance company is going to decide
not to pay for them.
Dee
