How much is your life worth?

November 6, 2013

How much is your life worth? If you suffer a heart attack, get bypass surgery, and stay in the hospital for several weeks, you’re looking at about $100,000. If you need insulin to keep from lapsing into a diabetic coma, it costs several hundred a year. We pay for the treatments that save our lives — and, in a sense, that it what our lives are worth (to someone with an invoice). This practice is as old as medicine itself. (Huffington Post)