WOW next decade Medicare will spend $250b on "death care", $ spent in health care in last year of life. #reconcon we need to reinvent dying.
.@emilesnyder so I think the question is about the extra $21K spent on the last year of life on extreme/heroic efforts to extend life
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@avantgame@emilesnyder that's *if* you can call it life, in some cases. -
@AlexNeuman@emilesnyder right, exactly. I'm thinking of the really difficult last year with so much hospital time instead of home, hospice -
@avantgame@emilesnyder It's understandable to want to spend time with family - but it should be time spent sharing and not just waiting -
@AlexNeuman@avantgame trying to figure out what numbers to look at to get handle on how good we are at estimating answer to that qestion.
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