[quote=paramount]patientrenter: My statements are not in conflict because I did not define what those limitations might be.

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there in lies the problem.
everyone has a different idea of what the appropriate limit may be.
during my rotations in the ICU as a medical student and resident, I witnessed some family members demanding “every thing be done. cost be damned” for the dying patients. Guess who ended up footing the bill?
that $500,000 to keep the patient alive 4 weeks longer could have been used to educate or treat hundreds of needy kids.
look at Octomom and her $1.5million hospital stay. Not to mention the lifetime cost to raise those medically needy kids. For her, society should pay b/c that is the “appropriate limit”.