In a long interview with Obama on healthcare, Time's Karen Tumulty pressed the President on an example of a tough cost/benefit decision on treatment he had raised in an April interview with David Leonhardt -- a hip replacement Obama's grandmother received at the very end of life, when she was terminally ill with cancer. Should Kaiser Permanente have paid for the operation? They did - and Tumulty asked whether that was a good use of healthcare dollars. Obama's answer was evasive - and properly so, I think:
Scat, CAT scan: Obama on U.S. health waste
Scat, CAT scan: Obama on U.S. health waste
Scat, CAT scan: Obama on U.S. health waste
In a long interview with Obama on healthcare, Time's Karen Tumulty pressed the President on an example of a tough cost/benefit decision on treatment he had raised in an April interview with David Leonhardt -- a hip replacement Obama's grandmother received at the very end of life, when she was terminally ill with cancer. Should Kaiser Permanente have paid for the operation? They did - and Tumulty asked whether that was a good use of healthcare dollars. Obama's answer was evasive - and properly so, I think: