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Lifer
- Jun 3, 2002
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This isn't really hard to get; the most expensive medical care occurs in the last year of life, specifically the last few days/weeks of life when ultra-expensive and previously unavailable medical technology is used to keep you alive temporarily. This technology was not available in the 1950's and 1960's, therefore you couldn't spend money (out of pocket or not) on medical care that didn't exist in your final days of life. And therefore, any correlation to the introduction of Medicare is, at best, weak and, at worst, unrelated.