How much money is spend each year on long term care for patients with an incurable disease?

I'm pro euthanasia and one of my points is that long term care, as opposed to euthanasia, costs a LOT of money. can anyone please find a stat for me that proves that statement? thanks!

Madre has given accurate figures so I am just adding my opinion. I know that everyone wants care but they do NOT want to pay. So when it comes to grown children paying for their parents to linger on and making themselves broke when that money should be used for their own childrens education; I feel that it is immoral. To pay for nursing care for terminal illness using money that is needed for childrens upbringing is wrong. I would not want my children to keep me alive at their expense, nor would I want taxpayers to do it. Natural is best and many cultures have better ways.

So it's okay to kill...er, ASSIST someone in dying...to save money? Maybe you should be euthanized...

You say you are pro-euthanasia, so what I said is completely valid.

No stats here, but I have experience in the billing side of this situation. It all actually depends on the source of payment a patient has, and the level of care needed. A patient residing in a nursing home long term can have expenses such as therapy three to five times a week, room and board of anywhere from 160-250 per day, incontinence supplies, insurance premiums, co-pays and deductibles, medications, etc. If they are receiving skilled nursing services, and Medicare is paying, the cost can be over $10k a month, whereas a private pay person could pay about 6k or 7k a month, and a Medicaid patient would put Medicaid out about 5k a month. You also have to consider the expenses involved with a person having a terminal illness needing treatment for illnesses related to treatment of a condition not related to the terminal illness...that adds additional costs.

On minimum average, I'd say it probably costs "someone" about $70k or $80k a year to provide care for a terminally ill patient. But I don't think that's an excuse to kill them. If someone is terminally ill and wants to die, then they can request that they receive no treatment beyond comfort measures...which is my opinion is similar to euthanasia but in a legal sense. The problem is that they have to make those wishes known ahead of time.

I'm sure euthanasia would probably be cheaper, but moral? Not in this world it's not.