The cost of dying
Last night's "60 Minutes" had a really good feature on our health care system and, more specifically, medical spending in the last months of life.
John Cole wrote this about the segment:
Be great if we could have a serious discussion about this, but as the freakout over death panels and mammogram guidelines show, good luck with that. One party finds it in their advantage to not be serious.
It would be great indeed. Certainly Republicans can't participate in any serious discussion about end of life decisions and wasteful spending after having labeled those as the equivalent to death panels and rationing. But suggesting it's just Republicans who aren't serious is wrong, I think.
I just can't imagine a single Democrat who would have the spine to bring up these issues either.
If the issue ever does get seriously discussed, it will have to be the American public that leads it. And that doesn't seem very likely.
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