When it comes to expensive, hi-tech treatments with some potential to extend life, there are few limitations. <\/p>\n
By law, Medicare cannot reject any treatment based upon cost. It will pay $55,000 for patients with advanced breast cancer to receive the chemotherapy drug Avastin, even though it extends life only an average of a month and a half; it will pay $40,000 for a 93-year-old man with terminal cancer to get a surgically implanted defibrillator if he happens to have heart problems too. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think you cannot make these decisions on a case-by-case basis<\/strong>,\u201d Byock said. \u201cIt would be much easier for us to say \u2018We simply do not put defibrillators into people in this condition.\u2019 Meaning your age, your functional status, the ability to make full benefit of the defibrillator. Now that\u2019s going to outrage a lot of people.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cBut you think that should happen?\u201d Kroft asked. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think at some point it has to happen,\u201d Byock said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell, this is a version then of pulling Grandma off the machine?\u201d Kroft asked. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, I have to say, I think that\u2019s offensive. I spend my life in the service of affirming life. I really do. To say we\u2019re gonna pull Grandma off the machine by not offering her liver transplant or her fourth cardiac bypass surgery or something is really just scurrilous. And it\u2019s certainly scurrilous when we have 46 million Americans who are uninsured<\/strong>,\u201d Byock said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hey, eff you Byock. If grandma wants a fourth cardiac bypass then who the hell are you to deny her the treatments\u2026 especially since she has spent her entire working life paying into a program that you and your death panels want to ration out to the uninsured and illegals. <\/p>\n
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