They know the odds of survival for just about everything and while I’m pleased your father lived another 5 years, there were probably another 19 that lived less than a handful of months. That’s probably $20 million+ in expense for a few years of life between the 20 total. Fine on your own money, but not taxpayers $. The average person, including their employer portion, only put in about $30-50k into medicare over their lifetime - and that’s for people that actually worked full time 30 to 50 years. A huge portion of the population doesn’t work at all or works for a lot fewer years or has a stay at home spouse. If you want to fund $0.5 to tens of millions of dollars in healthcare costs for a 3% chance to extend life by 2-5 years, more power to you. Just don’t demand that taxpayers do it.
They didn’t even know what they were dealing with until he had been in the hospital for a week.
Though I supposed they could have just said, he’s 81 so we aren’t even going to try.
When you buy home owners insurance you only pay a fraction of what it will cost the insurance company if your house burns down. But not everybody’s house is going to burn down.
Same thing with Medical care. Sure he probably got out more than he paid in. But my Mom didn’t get out more than she paid in. Because she died fairly quickly.
That’s the way insurance works. Most people are going to pay it and never get anything back. Some people are going to hit the jackpot...if you can call it that.