Pricing Life provides an original and penetrating analysis of health care rationing and cost effectiveness analysis by a physician who confronts these issues every day. Peter Ubel's insights need to be taken seriously by anyone interested in both a fairer and more efficient health care system.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
Ube;'s book is quite possibly the very best available on the question of rationing health care and all the policy and ethical problems attending any reasonable discussion on the matter. It is a first-rate contribution.
Robert Almeder, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University, and Editor, the American Philosophical Quarterly
An honest, no-holds-barred look at health care rationing, with a plea forcost-effectiveness analysis. Who could argue? Current rationing is hardlyrational.
Alfred I. Tauber, MD, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
An honest, no-holds-barred look at health care rationing, with a plea for cost-effectiveness analysis. Who could argue? Current rationing is hardly rational.
Alfred I. Tauber, MD, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
The style of writing is personal (first person), conversational, anecdotal, self-deprecatingly disarming, gently persuasive, and often very amusing.
Alan Williams, Health Economy