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  • Health economics
  • Bioethics
  • Public health policy

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  • Healthcare resource allocation decisions often involve societal evaluations of disease burden.
  • The concept of 'unworthy' patients and denial of care has historical ties to eugenics.
  • The cost-per-QALY (quality-adjusted life year) calculus is increasingly used in healthcare decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the parallels between historical eugenic decision-making and current cost-per-QALY threshold applications in healthcare.
  • To argue for the abandonment of QALY calculus in healthcare resource allocation.

Main Methods:

  • Commentary and critical analysis of existing healthcare economic frameworks.
  • Comparison of ethical principles in historical eugenics with modern cost-effectiveness analyses.

Main Results:

  • The application of cost-per-QALY thresholds, particularly by organizations like ICER in the US, can lead to the denial of care.
  • There are concerning similarities between the logic of eugenic resource allocation and the use of QALYs.

Conclusions:

  • The reliance on health state preferences and QALYs in resource allocation mirrors problematic historical approaches.
  • Moving away from a 'eugenic' approach requires abandoning the QALY calculus and societal preference-based decision-making.