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In order to make trade-offs - balancing benefits vs opportunity costs - in a health system, you need a common unit. You can't do a case by case analysis everywh
by barrkel 6y ago
In order to make trade-offs - balancing benefits vs opportunity costs - in a health system, you need a common unit. You can't do a case by case analysis everywhere, and you can't consider categories of cases separately or you'll get deviance in evaluation and global inconsistency, which directly implies less efficiency and worse outcomes for some categories.
Do you disagree with this? How do you deal with the existence proof of systems which do use quantitative models?
(In the absence of models, there's still people who allocate resources, and resources are quantified. There is still a quantitative judgement made in the form of allocation. I'm finding it hard to understand your position in any rational sense.)
- totony 6y agoAgreed, I think people get too caught off on deontology when assigning monetary value to life. It's just a common unit, if you can save one life by investing 20$ more in healthcare, then losing one life to make 20$ is rationally neutral (considering the lives are equal based on some metric, e.g. expected years left to live).