re: #795 mikey_dallas

This leads to the whole issue of Quality Adjusted Remaining Years (QARY), and if you need $20K in medical treatment and that will buy you 3 more years of quality life, and a year of quality life is determined by one of these panels to be worth $5K, then you only get $15K of benefit from $20 K of medical treatment. Treatment DENIED. You don’t get 3 more years of “quality life”, you get nothing but what amounts to a death sentence by denial of treatment that would extend quality life for you.

The QDRY analysis in Ezekiel Emmanuel’s article was about how to allocate transplant organs, or limited drugs in a fast-moving epidemic, when it’s physically impossible to treat everyone. It wasn’t about costs.