From the article, "We are spending an enormous amount of our healthcare budget on patients in the last 5 or 10 years of their life." It is even worse than that

From the article, "We are spending an enormous amount of our healthcare budget on patients in the last 5 or 10 years of their life." It is even worse than that in the U.S., estimated at 10% of total healthcare expenditures in the last year of life. See https://www.wrvo.org/health/2019-09-30/ten-percent-of-all-healthcare-spending-in-the-u-s-goes-toward-end-of-life-care https://www.wrvo.org/health/2019-09-30/ten-percent-of-all-he...