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We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. Eric: I’ve heard that before.

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When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. For individuals with a life expectancy less than the time to benefit, the up front harms outweigh the downstream benefits. . James: Yeah.

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Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. It was Remember Me.

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Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. And we interestingly did not really see any change in function in those individuals, which has somewhat been reported in some places elsewhere, which makes one wonder if they maybe weren’t accounting for serious illness in some of those populations.

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