Re:Health Care Doesn't Affect Health (on the margin)
by mmt on Friday August 21, 2009 @10:19AM
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>Lastly, he only considers length of life and totally ignores quality of life...
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>False. The RAND experiment studied various health measures, not mortality.
That may be the case, but the author makes it clear enough that, even in this case, it is mortality with which he is concerned:
"The RAND experiment was not quite large enough to see mortality effects directly, and so the plan was to track..."
I must agree that there is a distinct absence of focus on quality of life, which I believe is the crux of the issue, especially at the expensive margins, near the end of life.
That may be the case, but the author makes it clear enough that, even in this case, it is mortality with which he is concerned:
"The RAND experiment was not quite large enough to see mortality effects directly, and so the plan was to track..."
I must agree that there is a distinct absence of focus on quality of life, which I believe is the crux of the issue, especially at the expensive margins, near the end of life.