But, how you get on hospice is really up to you and your family. There's no barrier from anyone picking up a phone and calling one of the local hospices and saying, 'I think I want to be evaluated for hospice and a hospice will come out and do an evaluation and make that communication with your physician. It is a Medicare entitlement. So everyone is entitled to the hospice benefit, and no one should die in this country with a life limiting disease and not receive the hospice benefit. No, I don't think so.
Treatment has to be guided by the individual.
And there are some individuals who make it very clear I want to be treated, I want to be treated in the most high-tech way possible until the end of my life. And those people would be uncomfortable with hospice. They want to be in the hospital, and they want to be in the intensive care unit if necessary. For those people it's not an option. And that's okay.