You would think that if a terminally ill patient wants to go home and die in his own bed, a typical hospital or nursing home would jump at the opportunity. You would be wrong. Dying patients, it turns out, are a source of revenue. A lot of revenue.
The Right to Die
Also published in Forbes Mon. September 29, 2014
John C. Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.
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