Comments on: Futile care http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/futile-care-2.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Happymanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/futile-care-2.html#comment-74724 Happyman Mon, 07 May 2007 21:54:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/futile-care.html#comment-74724 that situation happens like every day in NYC. <br/><br/>If only family were forced to spend just ONE PERCENT of projected costs to stick demented old grandpa in the ICU on a vent for a couple weeks, I think we'd see a lot more humane & realistic palliative care at the end of life. that situation happens like every day in NYC.

If only family were forced to spend just ONE PERCENT of projected costs to stick demented old grandpa in the ICU on a vent for a couple weeks, I think we’d see a lot more humane & realistic palliative care at the end of life.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/futile-care-2.html#comment-74679 Anonymous Mon, 07 May 2007 04:05:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/futile-care.html#comment-74679 Amen. The daughter should reimburse the taxpayer and then she should be jailed for elder abuse!!!!!!!! Amen. The daughter should reimburse the taxpayer and then she should be jailed for elder abuse!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/futile-care-2.html#comment-74672 Anonymous Mon, 07 May 2007 03:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/futile-care.html#comment-74672 "It all took a toll financially. Pereira went on Medicaid last May, after her home health care needs depleted her savings. In addition, Klein estimates her mother's final years cost several hundred thousand dollars. Probably a third of that, she says, was since mid-2006. She says she has no idea how much the bill was to Medicare and Medicaid."<br/><br/>Well it is about d*** time someone got an idea how much this cost working people and taxpayers. Not to mention the toll this took on the underfunded Medicaid program we have here in Texas. <br/><br/>It is one thing to spend your own dollars, it is another to spend mine. Public funds simply CANNOT be spent like this just because a family wants to. I would like the federal government and the state of Texas to send them a bill. “It all took a toll financially. Pereira went on Medicaid last May, after her home health care needs depleted her savings. In addition, Klein estimates her mother’s final years cost several hundred thousand dollars. Probably a third of that, she says, was since mid-2006. She says she has no idea how much the bill was to Medicare and Medicaid.”

Well it is about d*** time someone got an idea how much this cost working people and taxpayers. Not to mention the toll this took on the underfunded Medicaid program we have here in Texas.

It is one thing to spend your own dollars, it is another to spend mine. Public funds simply CANNOT be spent like this just because a family wants to. I would like the federal government and the state of Texas to send them a bill.

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