Patients themselves rarely make plans for dying, the period that typically costs the most.On Valentine's Day 2009, Scott Crawford, 41 years old, received the break that he thought would save his life. A surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore removed his ailing heart and put in a healthy one. The transplant was a success.But complications put the former tire-warehouse worker in intensive care for almost a year. Surgeons removed his gall bladder, his left leg and part of a lung. And Mr. Crawford soon became one of the most expensive Americans on Medicare.A sliver of the sickest...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/07/07/the_crushing_cost_of_care_284147.html
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