While end of life care does contribute to a

Jun 29, 2020
4:31:26pm

akamai Redshirt Freshman

significant amounts of health care dollars it would be unwise to simply ration heath care based on age. Case in point my wife had expensive cancer treatment at age 67. She is now cancer free with a normal life expectancy.

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My (probably unpopular opinion) is that we need to either treat healthcare as a public good or not. If we want to

Slim Broscience major

6/29/20 10:24am

You're not wrong. But as we continue in a more "bleeding heart" direction we'll be looking at single payer before turnin

Grit for Brains

6/29/20 10:28am

I agree that is the more likely scenario

Slim

6/29/20 10:29am

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rivercitycoug

6/29/20 10:30am

I’m a doctor and would agree to salary decrease if it meant a revolution in med school training and cost as well as a

Slim

6/29/20 10:32am

500k for school?

Huge Manatee

6/29/20 10:38am

They are making a killing

Slim

6/29/20 10:40am

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rivercitycoug

6/29/20 11:20am

Arizonians

Slim

6/29/20 2:37pm

I think average debt for graduating MDs is something like 220k

valleus

6/29/20 10:50am

Looks like you’re right. Where I went was expensive.

Slim

6/29/20 10:52am

It is still outrageous. Cut med school costs makes it easier to cut md salaries.

valleus

6/29/20 10:55am

If the govt would forgive my loans I'd be interested.

SJS

6/29/20 11:02am

At least 1/3 of that 17% GDP is wasted dollars in healthcare. Whether it is because of fraud, unnecessary procedures,

specsauce

6/29/20 10:38am

Canadian Docs on avg make more than us. So it can be done

cougfanz

6/29/20 10:52am

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rivercitycoug

6/29/20 11:19am

I’ll look. Maybe I’m full of nonsense. Just relaying

cougfanz

6/29/20 11:44am

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rivercitycoug

6/29/20 11:53am

Not super recent but this article in the National Post states otherwise.

JohnnyComeLately

6/30/20 10:16am

I wish it were easier for healthcare providers to fire patients, within reason.

KingDave

6/29/20 10:34am

I have gotten onboard with the idea that there could and should be a government run healthcare network with orgs run

specsauce

6/29/20 10:35am

Would that be similar to what is done with VA hospitals, but for Medicare.

Pepe

6/29/20 10:40am

specsauce

6/29/20 11:29am

I've always thought there could be a two system setup

Pro Logic

6/29/20 10:39am

That's a common setup. I'm not sure why we've convinced ourselves it's binary.

vagabonder

6/29/20 10:44am

That’s what I’m in favor of. Model it after Germany

cougfanz

6/29/20 10:51am

I not sure the public would go along with this as those that can afford private

vegasnative

6/29/20 10:52am

We pay significantly more per capita than developed nations with public systems,

vagabonder

6/29/20 10:55am

Right, but there is a huge difference between building a quality system from the

vegasnative

6/29/20 11:09am

So, separate and unequal?

SpiffCoug

6/29/20 10:53am

such is life

maxpowers

6/29/20 10:57am

I would like a hybrid set up, with the government entity being highly focused on

kotacoug

6/29/20 11:34am

We will not have an NHS model. Hopefully it will be Medicare for all, with the

valleus

6/29/20 10:49am

While end of life care does contribute to a

akamai

6/29/20 4:31pm

It would likely be based on prognosis, not age.

Delicate Genius

6/30/20 10:37am

That would be the ideal, but when does a government based system work based on

akamai

6/30/20 10:44am

Medicare for all? Pass.

crazY

6/30/20 11:22am

Are frequent flyers in the ER really the big cost sink that we think it is?

mudpupper

6/29/20 11:15am

There have been OIG studies done on Medicaid that show that 1/2 to 2/3 of the visits to the ER are unnecessary. The

specsauce

6/29/20 2:37pm

That’s true, but still not a large cost driver compared to end of life care

valleus

6/29/20 2:49pm

Of course end of life care is expensive. We need to be looking at all areas where costs can be reigned in. I think we

specsauce

6/30/20 8:30am

The problem is that discussions about end of life often lead

akamai

6/30/20 8:47am

Agree, but also make cost/pricing available and up front.

swimbro

6/30/20 11:38am

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