Was certainly true for my Dad, hardly ill a day in his life, until his last ten days, and the cost of the (futile) care expended was certainly 95% of the health care he consumed on this Earth.

ON THE OTHER HAND 95% of that expenditure could have been prevented, if any of five or so physicians involved had acted competently to treat an 85 year old patient. Not to mention he would almost certainly have had another year or three of reasonably good health.

I am exceedingly skeptical about the *quality* of medical care that 95% of the population receives, and poor quality translates to cost, but I’ll be damned if I can find a word about this in anybody’s proposed bills.