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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. I mean, financially, the bulk of the American healthcare system is a fee-for-service system. Alex: Mm-hmm.