[jwalsh07]

It’s the decision makers who are the problem. Try this on for size. You’re a 65 year old out of work living on SS and your coronary artery plugs. Without treatment you’re dead in three months. Should the “state” approve your stent?

[Steve_Seattle]

"It’s the decision makers who are the problem. Try this on for size. You’re a 65 year old out of work living on SS and your coronary artery plugs. Without treatment you’re dead in three months. Should the “state” approve your stent?"

That is not the scenario we were talking about; I was talking abut a scenario in which a person is dead within three months even with the $100,000 treatment.