More disciplined=less health care

Notice how delicately Politico puts the dilemma....iow, the general public will NEVER receive the kind of health care Ted Kennedy gets:

The uncomfortable truth, according to health care experts, is that most concepts about lowering health care costs involve patients and care-givers becoming more disciplined about resisting the kinds of aggressive medical treatments Kennedy has pursued to battle his brain tumor.

By these lights, the problem is not that too few Americans have access to the kind of care that Kennedy is receiving. The problem is that too many Americans avail themselves of expensive treatments that may extend lives at the margins but have low prospects of actually saving them.