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Reply to comment by uhuhshesaid in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
>and underfunded as a resource.
It's not really underfunded at all in USA but it is underutilized
If anything, I think it's going to get a nasty crackdown on reimbursement because as is, hospice care reimburses probably a lot more than the labor or medications can reasonably justify. It's using 150-year-old medications that cost pennies, administered by an RN
That's my prediction, but CMS is notoriously well-known to do the exact opposite of what needs to happen
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