They should receive the best care possible, including palliative treatment, a dimension of terminalcare that is often scandalously neglected: and this in turn will require, in America, a proper effort to extend health coverage to the uninsured.
Yet Medicare seems to be learning exactly the wrong lessons from the success of the program, which provides well-integrated patient-centered comfort care to people with terminal illness.
If you would like more information on this topic, the following websites may help: BBC Health: Support for terminal illness, National Council for Palliative Care and Dying Matters.