-——the report showed how a tiny segment of the population-—
A tiny segment....... those who are about to die. The actual fact is that there is a large segment, almost all. All will die eventually and will run up the unpayable bills
So long as health care providers are held hostage to malpractice lawsuits by an ignorant but irrational fanatical grand daughter insisting “you could have saved granma but killed her” there is no solution.
The grand daughter lives elsewhere but rushes to the hospital and is horrified by the relatives who have decided that granma must be allowed to end her suffering and die in peace. The grand daughter throws a hissy fit and insists everything possible must be done.TIhe things are done and the money is spent, tons and tons of money. Granma lives. The grand daughter goes home, smugly content she saved granma.
Three or six weeks later, granma dies any way.
Some variation of this story is being played out in virtually ever hospital in America in several simultaneous incidents. The health care providers know the story well. They spend the money on procedures that are ultimately ineffective because they must. The out of control health care costs do not buy what is hoped for. Death prevails.
It surely does, so why wait, you are just using resources that someone younger than you needs.
After all humans are no different than cockroaches. In fact some cockroaches are protected species, so I guess that isn't even true, some cockroaches have more value to the planet than humans.