Cream-de-la-Peach

Cream-de-la-Peach t1_j4ygu76 wrote

Well that’s half the issue with healthcare is that insurance dictates what care patients get and that’s not how it should work. What really needs to change is that patient’s advance directives should be followed according to their wishes and we shouldn’t let family member’s wishes supersede those of the patient when they no longer have capacity to make decisions. A lot of families that will continue life sustaining measures when the patient clearly wrote they did not want it in their advance directive or they never had one.

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Cream-de-la-Peach t1_j4wxtv8 wrote

That is the most asinine comment I have ever read. We should let insurance companies decide when someone’s life is no longer worth saving and when they will stop covering care? They already scam most patients out of money, anyone who ends up in ICU would get screwed by insurance trying to say “we aren’t covering futile services”.

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