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

To: i-node who wrote (6377)	3/14/2009 12:24:38 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Of course, there WAS something he could do which is to provide humane treatment in her final days. Exactly. It's called hospice. I'm surprised your mother wasn't in hospice care rather than assisted living before the incident occurred. Then there would have been no issue. I'm sorry that happened to your mother and you. No excuse, IMO. My dad died in home hospice. It was a simple, obvious, and humane process, and cost-effective to boot. That's a win-win. It was encouraged by the social workers in the hospital. Medicare makes it easy to choose hospice. I think that's a great step forward. Re situations like your brother's, it seems to me that an all-out effort should be made. In emergencies, time is too short to process a decision to let victims die. There are relatively few people who die that way and it's better to waste that money than loose a life that could have been saved. It's the cost of medical treatments to extend life briefly for those who are on their way out that is the real waste. But getting government OUT is the approach, IMO. I agree that the government shouldn't be making those decisions. But I don't see anything wrong with the government fostering a community standard of care that declines to waste money.