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To: LindyBill who wrote (12187)	10/14/2003 3:18:04 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793799

I suppose there have been cost projections done, or maybe not. It seems to me that most of the costs in Medicare are at the end of life when people are already circling the drain but the impetus in medicine is to do everything possible even if all it does is make the patient more miserable at the end. Hospice care is expensive, but less expensive than hospital stays and medical tests and hopeless procedures. I would not be surprised if it didn't prove less costly or at least not significantly more costly to make people feel better at the end than to poke and prod them incessantly. If there weren't this clear line of demarcation between the curing and the caring sides of the house, it would be easier for both patients and doctors to decide that enough is enough shift from the former to the latter, to everyone's benefit, I would say, including those who pay for it, namely us.