Four paths to the end of life, one far more expensive than others, emerge in new study
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 09:31
in Health & Medicine
Last-ditch, high-tech heroic treatments. Days in the hospital intensive care unit. You might think this is what makes dying in America so expensive – and that it’s where we should focus efforts to spend healthcare dollars more wisely. But a new study finds that for nearly half of older Americans, high spending was already in motion a year before they died.