#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Are You Going to Spend a Hundred Thousand Dollars to End Someone's Life?
25% of medicar spending is in the last year of life. Half of all your health care spending, an average, will be after age 65. We assume that if i'm goig to spend a hundred thousand dollars we have to make a brutal decision and say, look, iti gives people an extra month af life, and sorry, you just don't get it. It's not worth it. There's thes we should be brutal id also be almost unpalatable. And that's why discussing end of life care was branded as a death panel.
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