This is always a point that needs stressing if we are ever to make better consumptive choices in the medical arena, but what exactly is new here? I was having these exact same discussion in an intro medical ethics class 15 years ago? We spend so much of our medical resources on people who are going to die in the next few months and have a terrible quality of life. Healthcare is one arena where informed consent/markets do not work because people are manifestly irrational when it comes to the health of they/their loved ones.
Should we spend 200,000 of societies money to keep grandma alive another 6 weeks? Sure!
Bron: By: Josh
By: Josh
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