RNed

Yes, it does good for society. However, there needs to be an ethical, moral and healthcare discussion on how much money and services should go to support those that, by study, we know will have poor or bad outcomes. Too much money is spent on the last days of life because our society fails to accept death.
Healthcare has continued a mission statement to postponed death at all costs and has spoonfeed this as "good" to society without open and honest dialog. It attacts anyone who would limit funding as immoral, unethical and without compassion. In other words you are a bad person if you do not continue to fund the medical machine. This is an unfair statement and used to keep the funds flowing.
Medicine is a double edged sword. It has its good and its bad. However, because we can, does not mean we should.
Society is served with good medicine, but like anything else to much can be a bad thing.