Three Reasons Why We Should Not Ration End-of-Life Care<br />Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates - Albert Theatre at Goodman Theatre<br />Intelligence Squared Debates posits the argument: Should the United States ration end-of-life car?Taking place at Chicago Ideas Week: Just because we can extend life, should we? The U.S. is expected to spend $2.8 trillion on health care in 2012. Medicare alone will cost taxpayers $590 billion, with over 25% going toward patients in their last year of life. If health care is a scarce resource, limited by its availability and our ability to pay for it, should government step in to ration care, deciding whose life is worth saving? In other words, how much is an extra month of life worth? <br /><br />*Panelists subject to change<br /><br />Moderator: John Donvan<br />Author & Correspondent<br />ABC News<br /><br />For:<br />Dr. Art Kellermann<br />Chair in Policy Analysis<br />RAND HealthPeter Singer<br />Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics<br />Princeton University<br /><br />Against:<br />Sally Pipes<br />President and Chief Executive Officer<br />Pacific Research InstituteKen Connor<br />Chairman<br />Center for a Just Society
