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#748: November 16, 2022

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Health Care Costs in the Last Year of Life

Harrison Smith another infowars employee said so this is not good reporting in reality the number that Harrison is citing comes from an October 2020 report titled quote cost estimate for bill c7 medical assistance and dying it was conducted by the parliamentary budget officer. They looked at numbers from the Netherlands and Belgium as guides and found that it would be about 90 million in medical expenses would be saved by this bill well basically what they're both citing Greg Harrison okay however it's very clear this report when it says quote many studies have shown that health care costs in the last year of life are disproportionately high representing between 10 and 20 percent of total health care costs despite these patients representing about 1 percent of the population.

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