The powerful editor of the New England Journal and others now admit the way to "save" money for insurance companies and Medicare is for people not to live so long...duh.
Read the whole thing. You see, most people want to have any treatment that will help. And when it is futile, we encourage hospice.
But if you read the article, they complain hospice is also expensive and might not help.
Their solution?
Introducing gatekeepers, the administrators in health maintenance organizations who choose which procedures patients may undergo, could take the often-emotional decisions about end-of-life care out of doctors' and patients' hands.
Another solution would be to popularize the idea that certain people are better off dead, because their care costs too much.
And you thought "million dollar baby" was just a remake of Rocky, didn't you?
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