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In the article you referenced it says" 1627 billion spent on health care in 2011, we estimate that approximately 13%, or $205 billion, was devoted to care of in
by pcurve 7y ago
In the article you referenced it says" 1627 billion spent on health care in 2011, we estimate that approximately 13%, or $205 billion, was devoted to care of individuals in their last year of life."
It says 13% but the dollar figure still says over 200 billion, and that's 2011 figure.
It's difference between total health expenditure vs. medicare.
- glofish 7y agoI am not sure what you are getting at. Are you saying the research paper got their conclusion and with that title wrong? In my opinion, for anyone that cares about the scientific accuracy content of the paper titled "The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care" should be more credible than that "comment"/"blog post"/opinion piece "Life is a Ponzi Scheme". This is what is so wrong with this original post - it a not a curated, reviewed article. Just a subjective and superficial opinion - but because it was published in an otherwise selective journal it gets more credibility.
- pcurve 7y agoMy point is percentage is different because they used different demoniators. But dollar amount in numerator is the basically the same. The former author didn't just pull number out of thing air.