[AZLiberty]

Medicare is in the same position. The quicker people die, the better it is for Medicare, financially.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) did a study a few years ago to determine whether Medicare should implement newer techniques for chronic disease management. The conclusion was that the new techniques would probably allow people to lead longer, healthier lives, but people would eventually die of something else, probably cancer, whose treatment is much more expensive than having people die of heart disease. The cost to Medicare would have been huge.

[Stoat]

Medicare is in the same position. The quicker people die, the better it is for Medicare, financially.

Very sad, and it 'should' serve as a lesson to all on the necessity of implementing Capitalist reforms in Medicare.

Such reforms, thankfully, are at least being discussed.  Hopefully the siren song of "free healthcare"  will not sway too many voters, but I worry that far too many are simply too stupid to understand what it is that they are actually voting for.