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This is an oft-repeated piece of received wisdom that is empirically untrue. https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/28/end-of-life-health-spending/ https://www.statn

• robocat 4y ago
  Wow: just sample bias! We need to also look at the old people who had expensive care and survived (95% of costs in that article). Money does gets spent on hospital care just before death (5%), but predicting how to avoid “wasting” that money is hard.
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