New-Negotiation7234 t1_j4yo6xo wrote on January 19, 2023 at 4:19 AM

Reply to comment by hear4theDough 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

Insurance dictates how much money is given to the hospital based on a diagnostic code. For example pneumonia is 2.9 days so the hospital gets that amount of money if the patient is admitted for 2 days or 20. Also, insurances do not cover 30 day readmits. So it’s not really the hospital. They make money on surgeries