Obstacles to dying at home

Re “Why can’t we die at home?,” Opinion, Sept. 14

Haider Javed Warraich’s Op-Ed article was personal for me, as I found it greatly challenging to get my father home to die just about a month ago.

Warraich omits a significant factor: Hospitals and doctors make more money keeping patients in the hospital.

As a result, while I made it very clear that my goal was to get my father home to die, I was told by at least two doctors that it was impossible. Thankfully, a nurse pulled me aside and told me how it could be done.

My father and my family suffered needlessly because we were denied the information we explicitly requested. It also cost Medicare a lot more money.

But that seems to be the point.

Michael Lubic

Los Angeles