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Allocating Scarce Medical Resources

What a quality-adjusted life year measures, why disability advocates object to it, and whether a lottery treats claimants more fairly than triage

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Will definequality-adjusted life yearfair innings argumentdisability discrimination objectiontriagehealth prioritarianismweighted lottery
Assumesjustice in health carebeneficencenumbers problemaggregationutilitarianism

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