Agreed, 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 2

Agreed, 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).