
Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Philosophy Bites
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness
Cost-benefit analysis requires you to give a valuation of costs and benefits. Cost-effectiveness doesn't require so much information, he says. The currency it measures effectiveness in is quality of life years. It judges new medicines on the grounds they will deliver more qualities than other things that are currently in the system.
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