On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:14:16 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


I was thinking more of terminal conditions and the costs associated with
keeping people alive for a relatively short period of time.

I understand that, and that's where decisions get very difficult. As
national policy, however, I would be looking to save costs in other
places, rather than life and death decisions. I have yet to hear a valid
reason our health costs are nearly twice that of other industrial
nations. There has to be considerable savings to be found in that 7-8%
GDP.