Quote:
|
Originally Posted by team222badbrad
YOU KNOW AND I KNOW WE ARE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON THESE STUPID COURT CASES THEN WE WILL SPEND ON HER HOSPITAL BILL!
Use all of the extra money they are spending on these court cases and non-sense battles to help try and create a way to restore people like her back to a somewhat normal life, if possible.
|
$432.01 per day. That is what Medicare will pay for hospice care (as of 1999). $432.01 per day for 10 years is $1,576,836.50. Thats just hospice care, and does not include any testings (MRI, CAT, PET, ECG, EEG), evaluations by specialists, any number of things. The cost of her care has likely surpassed 2 million dollars since she suffered her heart attack.
That said, I don't think that we should nessicarly spend tons of money finding ways to restore Terri to the way she was. I do believe that research should be done, but the reality is that research dollars are limited. The truly unfortunate part is the way that the money is spent. The money spent on research for AIDS/HIV breaks down to about $2,150 per patient with AIDS/HIV in America. The research for breast cancer comes to about $200 per patient with breast cancer. For patients with diabetes, only about $20 per patient is spent on research each year.
If you do the numbers by how much was spent on research by the patients who died of the diseases, the National Institute of Health spent $2.77 on heart disease research for each person that died of heart disease. Terri is where she now because her heart stopped. $15.05 was spent on diabetes research for each person that died of diabetes. $110.81 was spent per AIDS/HIV death.
Politics drives just about everything in this country, including how research money is spent. Hopefully this case will help drive additional sorely needed money into medical research, rather then politics reallocating how the pie is to be cut.
Wetzel