{"id":8042,"date":"2009-08-19T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T16:54:44","slug":"op-ed-cut-health-care-spending-on-the-elderly-npr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2009\/08\/19\/op-ed-cut-health-care-spending-on-the-elderly-npr-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s an interesting take, and only if you take the time to read\/listen to it. In short, our current system pushes us to spend tons of money on end-of-life health care. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=111959018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this interview<\/a>, think of how much we could save if we just stopped and asked the elderly patients what they thought of how their treatment should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yes, this involves discussing living wills in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The editorial in question is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/17\/opinion\/17dooling.html?bl&amp;ex=1250654400&amp;en=896e8475da33a334&amp;ei=5087%0A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article by Atul Gawande can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/06\/01\/090601fa_fact_gawande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, as well as a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2009\/06\/atul-gawande-the-cost-conundrum-redux.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">follow-up companion piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting take, and only if you take the time to read\/listen to it. In short, our current system pushes us to spend tons of money on end-of-life health care. According to&nbsp;this interview, think of how much we could save if we just stopped and asked the elderly patients what they thought of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8043,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}