As with ALL technological advances medical treatments become less expensive as they are used; it is necessary to utilize these techniques as they are developed in order to make them better and more affordable. The cost of this is nearly always absorbed by hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.
And before you bring up the the Medicare crisis you need to realize that the problems ARE NOT because those on Medicare didn't pay in enough money, the problem is that less than a decade after Medicare was implemented a decision was made to murder 53 MILLION future taxpayers. ALL of America's economic problems exist because of our abandonment of pro-life principles, Social Security and Medicare would be fully solvent were it not for abortion.
The decision to end a life is not the same as comforting a dying person. Deliberately ending a life takes death out of the hands of God. If God provided death as the end of life then it is His decision to end it, not someone playing God. A culture that denies God’s authority over life and death will always engage in the murder of innocents. Whether the person is an unborn infant or someone frail and sickly killing them is only acceptable in a Godless world.