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Jack-Campin t1_j4v8s1i wrote

There was a very long documentary, "Near Death", by Fred Wiseman in the 1980s that followed a few patients through an ICU and after. (Some lived, some died, mostly you couldn't guess which). One statistic he quoted: the USA spent half its entire medical budget on people in their last three weeks of life.

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Kangermu t1_j4xu4cn wrote

And people are eligible for up to six months of hospice under CMS, but in general only receive a week or less. It's a tragedy fueled by misunderstanding of what hospice really is

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