Medicare Spending
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Gawande: 25% of Medicare spending occurs in the final year of life
“The last year of life, we know that 25% of Medicare spending is in the last year of life, and most of that's in the last few months. So that's not 25% of all spending. Medicare is just after 65. That's about half of spending occurs after age 60. Half of all yo…”