Medicare spending
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 2, 2018 by Dr. Atul Gawande · across every show →
Everything said about Medicare spending, oldest first
Oct 2, 2018 neutral
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…”