> for reasons well-covered all over HN and elsewhere. I've yet to see a compelling argument that LY or QALY analysis is the wrong approach. > This is a whole

> for reasons well-covered all over HN and elsewhere. I've yet to see a compelling argument that LY or QALY analysis is the wrong approach. > This is a whole different thing from 'another flu'. We have to address it head-on It sounds like you're not actually offering any relevant response to the parent comment, but just repeating the taglines we all saw in the article. > Throwing people (a million people?) under the bus is not going to fly, not politically and not morally. Every political action has victims and beneficiaries. At the moment, we're hurting billions of people (almost the entire world population) to buy (on average) a few expected life-months for a very small section of the population. Your model of "people dying is bad" is true but not sufficient to make rational decisions.