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There are two iesuss here. One is the general desire to reduce the amount of ineffective care, i.e. underuse, overuse, misuse, and waste. The other is decide when care should be withheld because the odds do not demonstrate that it will efficacious in a particular case, i.e., your parent or grandparent who is elderly and might not respond to treatment.I think the difficult societal issue is how we take the general goal — on which we all agree — and telescope it down to the individual case when the family insists on pursuing all possible options. In these cases, I generally do not see a zeal to treat and spend originating from doctors: It is often sought by the patients and families.I am not naively saying it never originates from the other side of the bed; but I have seen many cases in which a family makes a treatment decision for an elderly relative, influenced at least part by the fact that the costs will be paid by Medicare and not by them. That is a major form of incentive itself.