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This is quite literally the definition of triage. You have finite resources. You have requests for resources which exceed your capabilities to service. You n
by hpcjoe 8y ago
This is quite literally the definition of triage.
You have finite resources. You have requests for resources which exceed your capabilities to service. You need to determine an order.
In an ideal utopian world, no one would ever need these services. In a less ideal world, everyone who needs these services would be serviced quickly and effectively with only positive outcomes.
In the real world, you have to make choices. These are very hard choices, and they have longer term impacts. It is literally "the good of the many vs the good of the few."
- tim333 8y agoWell, literally triage is "decide the order of treatment of (patients or casualties)" without much of the finance input. The NHS stuff is done by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence based on quality-adjusted life years and they have a guideline of £20,000 per year. So if a cancer treatment lets you live ten more years in ok condition it's worth spending £200k to do it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_and_Care_Excellence#Quality-adjusted_life_years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_...
- maxxxxx 8y agoIn the US everybody would scream "death panels" if they had something like NICE who tries to get some reality into the discussion. Instead the work of NICE is done by insurances. There is no open and rational discussion in the US about these things.