A lot of people would do better, on the margin, to get less end-of-life care than Americans typically do. There are a lot of laws and incentives that prevent doctors from being frank about the fact that the last treatment in a long series of treatments for a terminally ill person doesn’t help that much. The more familiar people are with the medical system, the more likely they are to want to spend their last days at home.
A lot of people would do better, on the margin, to get less end-of-life care than Americans typically do. There are a lot of laws and incentives that prevent doctors from being frank about the fact that the last treatment in a long series of treatments for a terminally ill person doesn’t help that much. The more familiar people are with the medical system, the more likely they are to want to spend their last days at home.