It’s not hospice care people are talking about. It’s all the things people try before hospice care. Expensive cancer treatment regimens, patented prescription drugs (especially what seems to be trending now — wildly expensive antibody-based therapies), extended hospital stays, surgeries, dialysis, specialist consults, etc. It would probably be a better world if it was more acceptable to simply choose hospice rather than fighting until the very end.

For those who have never read it, I highly recommend Ken Murray’s 2011 essay “How Doctors Die”. Those who have experience with how the hospital system approaches care for the dying overwhelmingly reject it and choose hospice, or choose to die at home.

I like this idea too!

Format is a default excel bar chart. You didn’t even bother to change the font or color. Both axes are literally titled “axis title”. The data is from 1991. The most interesting and relevant information is at the bottom, buried under a sea of obscure languages. Data is fucking ugly.

That’s how public services work, yes. Same way I have to pay when the firefighters put out a fire.

Just bustin’ ya balls eh? Don’t take comments from anyone here too seriously haha.

This question is like asking “I’m thinking of getting a new car, what are your thoughts on Lamborghinis?” Like, obviously if you’re loaded enough to afford it then it’s gonna be pretty good.

Rural Americans have been consistently overrepresented in all levels of government for literal centuries, but sure, keep playing the victim.

“I’ve discovered that people tend to live in cities” —OP

Link to actual ratings (it’s paywalled though)

Prescription stimulants have their drawback but have helped a lot of people. That’s purely a decision between an individual and their physician.

Yes, and probably not as early or late. You can use the MBTA trip planner website to see when they’re planning to run, and google maps is usually pretty accurate for seeing when they’re actually running.

Because they’re highly educated places.