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I take issue with the "most medical costs are accrued in the last year of life" point that gets bandied about. We don't know a priori which year is going to be
by nazgulnarsil 13y ago
I take issue with the "most medical costs are accrued in the last year of life" point that gets bandied about. We don't know a priori which year is going to be your last! This makes the point into almost a tautology.
- kingkawn 13y agoIt would be incredible to do a meta-analysis and see if you could create a prediction model of mortality based on healthcare spending on individuals. It could be that as the slope of costs begins to rise you can actually figure out the mortality based on that alone and not based on disease mechanism.
- eruditely 13y agoThis is just talk. I doubt it is that easy.
- kingkawn 13y agoright, its an idea. an idea that can then be followed up on and proven wrong or proven right. That is how you discover things. Without talk you've just got raw accident as the driving force for innovation. It gets some stuff done, but its not everything.
- aaronblohowiak 13y ago>We don't know a priori which year is going to be your last! For those times that incur large costs, I would bet that you could make a better-than-chance guess. What are the success rates of "extraordinary measures" ?