Insurance companies pay them. Insurance companies pay hospitals. Hospice is less expensive.
What is your alternative to hospice for a terminally ill person?
So very comforting to allow those we love to die without pain and suffering, isnt it? Comforting for them (I guess) and for those whose lives are inconvenienced by approaching death.
I don't know where this rant came from, but a member of my family was at my dad's side every minute of every day, since he was in his OWN HOME.
You've got a burr under your saddle about hospice. AFAIC, it's a wonderful alternative to dying in a hospital.
So far so good. Appreantly you understand the economic argument for Hospice.
I don't know where this rant came from, but a member of my family was at my dad's side every minute of every day, since he was in his OWN HOME.
So who said anything about dying in one's own home or not? To rephrase-treatment need not come at pain or inconvenience. Hospitals need not be "sterile" incompassionate places. Many are not. Pain relief need not be a boogieman among so many medical providers.
it's a wonderful alternative to dying in a hospital.
It is an insidious and sinister development in the medical care sector of society - one that essentially prepares the sick for death rather than support the battle for life...all in the name of "comfort" and "humaneness".
Just be on guard...
Maybe so, no one wants to die hooked up to a ventilator in an ICU. But is being slowly torured to death by forcible dehydration without the patient's permission a "wonderful alternative" to slipping away naturally or living peacefully with the aid of a simple feeding device? To some of us that's the real issue here, not the acknowledged value of hospice to people who are dying of natural causes.