An interesting article by two long time health care experts. In a nutshell, they advocate adjusting our priorities to focusing on quality not quantity of life years. They support targeting a increase of life expectancy to about 80, increasing quality of life across the board with the highest investment being in children, then the adults that basically run the country and finally, seniors over 80 years of age. They believe the government dollars being poured into disease processes that we've shown mostly small advances in don't equal money well or wisely spent.
Allocating our scarce assets accordingly, they claim would put us on a healthier path to success. It will involve quite a fundamental mind set change of our citizens. Some would call it rationing and therefore evil.
Give it a read, thoughts?
(Thanks to Dave E. for sending me this article)
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