How do you measure a year? Your desk calendar might suggest months or days. The musical “Rent” famously offered 525,600 minutes and a number of other more creative metrics.
Ask a progressive health policy expert, though, and they may give you the most shocking option of all. For years, progressives have attempted to build their policy proposals around “quality-adjusted life years,” or QALYs. This approach ostensibly assigns a dollar amount to a year of human life.
Many Americans find that kind of calculation grotesque. And a substantial portion of Congress does, too. Last month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill that would bar federal agencies from using QALYs to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of drugs and treatments.
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Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
Sally C. Pipes
How do you measure a year? Your desk calendar might suggest months or days. The musical “Rent” famously offered 525,600 minutes and a number of other more creative metrics.
Ask a progressive health policy expert, though, and they may give you the most shocking option of all. For years, progressives have attempted to build their policy proposals around “quality-adjusted life years,” or QALYs. This approach ostensibly assigns a dollar amount to a year of human life.
Many Americans find that kind of calculation grotesque. And a substantial portion of Congress does, too. Last month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill that would bar federal agencies from using QALYs to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of drugs and treatments.
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Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.