froth said -

It did also provoke thought.  Some of the thoughts I went away with: "it costs $50.000 a day to keep a terminally ill patient in ICU."

75% of taxpayer-funded medical care is spent on ppl with, on average, only 6 mths to live anyway"

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the 50.000 you mention would not be the real cost. The amount of profit made on medical equipment, parts etc is outrageous, the profit on the cost of a lot of the medication is also huge - take away just those two things the real cost would be a lot lower. I remember some years ago one of the newspapers, think it was the telegraph, put the same question in regards to premature babies - was the cost justifiable, thankfully the horrible ideas put forward by the rag weren't picked up by the public or the medical profession. Surely human life should not be compared to the dollar.