Dear Judy,
I’m writing because my mother is driving me nuts (actually, I’m one of 3 sons, and she’s driving us all insane). She’s 78, in okay health considering, and a few of her friends are dying.
We — her sons — are all middle-aged and are not dying, except figuratively. Every day, our mother calls one [...]
”Why is Medicare considering lowering the reimbursement rates for hospice care?” a reader just wrote in yesterday. “I realize that hospice is the fastest growing segment of the Medicare program, but the number of dying Americans is not going down.“
That is correct. People in the United States are still dying – roughly at the [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009