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For a public health system you run the stats, using the $ cost of a life (or equivalent for a well life vs. sick life). Sounds sinister but ultimately they have
by quickthrower2 4y ago
For a public health system you run the stats, using the $ cost of a life (or equivalent for a well life vs. sick life). Sounds sinister but ultimately they have so many $ and need to decide how to optimise that money.
- bumby 4y ago>optimise that money Perhaps the problem is defining a hospitals utility function as “optimizing money” rather than “optimizing a patient outcome”. I agree that money is definitely a constraint, but I’m not sure it’s what should be optimized.
- LastTrain 4y agoYou do that for a non-public health system too, but you also figure in margins.