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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
Death panels?
It's sad, I see this at work, from time to time, extremely high cost drugs and treatment, constant ICU admissions, for a patient with zero quality of life. And typically it's children. There is a definitely a "medical industrial complex" though. Referrals to more and more sub-specialists, PT, OT, more and more testing, when truly the answer is "there's nothing that can fix this".
I reject the premise of the article about "single-payer" though. UK/NHS has death panels. Procedures and medication have to be "approved" before they can be purchased/used. 12 million down the hole for any patient, whether it's a self-insured company, or an ACA plan, or even a single-payer plan is a problem.
The problem is the human need to try to cheat death. To fix what cannot be fixed.