' 'The High Cost of Dying' Revisited" Anne A. Scitovsky, in The Milbank Quarterly (No. 4,19941, Blackwell Publishers, 238 Main St., Cambridge, Mass. 02142.
Health-care specialists have been worrying for years about the high cost of medical care given to dying patients. A 1984 study revealed that the six percent of Medicare enrollees who died in 1978 accounted for 28 percent of all Medicare expendi- tures. A powerful force behind the nation's soaring expenditures on health care ($752 billion...