I’ll bet that these consumers of the biggest portion of the Healy care budget are drug and alcahol abusers and AIDS virus carriers.
No, it is actually the very elderly that are willing to spend any amount of the public’s $$$ to stave off the inevitable for another few months.
It is spent on things like dialysis on nursing home patients, including expensive ambulance transport to/from three times a week.
It is spent by MD’s prescribing the latest drug, when a 50 year old cheap generic would do as well or better....
AND it is spent by the indigent seeking expensive ER care for bullsqueeze like colds and minor aches and pains.
I see it every day. These issues could easily be fixed - and it doesn’t take a top-down takeover of people’s lives, like obamacare, to fix them.
They aren’t. My husband is a health insurance company executive. I’ve asked him. Neither are gay people or HIV positive people.