Reply #28: biggest issues here: [View All]

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1) People are living longer, but often at the detriment of their quality of life. Example: when my dad was in intensive care, at one point he wanted to sign a do not resuscitate/no breathing tube/no extraordinary measures document but my stepmom wouldn't let him. He ended up getting two more major surgeries that killed him within 2 wks, at a very expensive cost to taxpayers. And why? He was of sound mind when he decided to give up on life, and he would have had a better end-of-life to not have the surgeries.

2) Docs and hospitals bill tremendous amounts of money for doing little. One doc billed my mom for an emergency dept. visit on a minor matter, and also billed for what he did while treating her. The hospital also billed for the ED visit. And she was billed $5 for one Tylenol. These high costs are passed onto Medicare and her AARP insurance, making her premiums quite high and costing taxpayers way too much.

3) Cost of drugs is absurd. Drug reimportation NOW!