March 9th 2010
The cost of healthcare…
This is, in a a way, a very sad story…
The bills for his seven years of medical care totaled $618,616, almost two-thirds of which was for his final 24 months. Still, no one can say for sure if the treatments helped extend his life.
It is a tale about the spiraling costs of health care – everywhere in the western world. It is a almost impossible weighting of (somewhat) extending live against extreme costs. When are you spending too much on a life? Who could make a decision like this? Should you even try to do this? Or should the government step in? I don’t know. But it is a problem this is fast increasing, and it will not go away. We need to solve this, one way or another…