An Argument for Dying Sooner Than You Have To

Just 10 percent of the population — mainly the elderly — consumes about 80 percent of health care expenditures, primarily on expensive chronic illnesses and end-of-life costs. Historically, the longer lives that medical advances have given us have run exactly parallel to the increase in chronic illness and the explosion in costs. Can we possibly […]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/an-argument-for-dying-sooner-than-you-have-to/