The important fact in the health care debate is that you spend 50% of your lifetime healthcare budget in your last year of life. Possible savings include:

• No more Hail Mary, painful, expensive procedures that can only hope to extend life by a few months.
• No more pushing terminal patients into treatments they don’t want.
• Many levels of care so that people can live as independently as possible as long as possible.
• Legalise physician-assisted suicide with safeguards to prevent pressuring either way.
• Research into nursing care technology — machines to keep the bed comfortable and clean, help patients into the bath or to their feet, help patients dress and undress, deliver medications on time…

~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)