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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (573)	2/22/2005 10:59:52 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Research on healthcare spending shows that end-of-life costs tend to account for a minority of total costs to healthcare systems; research from both North America and Europe shows that acute healthcare costs during the last year of life account for only about 10 to 12 percent of total healthcare budgets.i, ii chsrf.ca Last-year-of-life expenses constituted 22 percent of all medical, 26 percent of Medicare, 18 percent of all non-Medicare expenditures, and 25 percent of Medicaid expenditures. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The percentage of Medicare expenditures attributable to those beneficiaries in their last year of life increased from 26.5 percent in 1994 to 27.9 percent in 1999. cms.hhs.gov The numbers vary among sources, but the 20% - 30% range looks about right. Still quite a chunk of a multi-decade lifespan.