OK RvW, you be the judge. It's your tax dollars at work. Oh, and if you spend them on attempting to save the premie which has a very low probability of survival, those dollars won't be available for measures that would have a high probability of success on other patients. What would you do?

Whether it's public or private health insurance at work, I don't see spending scarce resources on low probability outcomes - let research take care of that, since all of today's high probability outcomes were once low probabilities, but that's a separate subject. Public or pooled resources ought to be spent were the best gain per dollar spent is attained. If people want to cover extraordinary measures that have a low probability of success, they can buy special, expensive, coverage for that or just pay for it out of pocket themselves if they're rich enough. Yep, being rich has its benefits.

So again, what would you do? And why?

Sg