Word: yes
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...cost per quality-adjusted life year, you are basically deciding how much a year of life is worth? Yes. The most controversial area is where you place the dividing line between what is cost-effective and what is cost-ineffective. That is the "How much is life worth?" question. And there is no real empirical research to guide you. We have looked at what other government departments do. Our Department of Transport, for instance, has a cost-per-life-saved threshold for new road schemes of about 1.5 million GBP per life, or around 30,000 GBP per life year...
...with its massive health-care market, did the same, could it have a transformative effect on drug costs? I think it could. The companies won't like it in America. But yes, it could...
...Yes, we must start spending again, and we will. But we've all known people who, having survived the 1930s, never lost their Depression habits of frugality. And so it will be again. We don't need to turn ourselves into tedious, zero-body-fat, zero-carbon-footprint ascetics, but even after the economy recovers, deciding to forgo that third car or fifth TV or imperial master bathroom or marginally cooler laptop will come more naturally...
Things I would never think to write a song about: tax software programs, White House cabinet members, Paul Krugman. Now, I might write a song about Maureen Dowd (tentative title: "I Wish You Would Disappear"), but Krugman? Yes, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist has a gift for breaking down complicated economic situations into easily digestible concepts, but he rarely inspires within me a sense of passion. Apparently songwriter Jonathan Mann disagrees...
...whether Obama persuades or fails, Americans are listening to more than the faux-controversial snippets blared out on the Drudge Report. They're absorbing the serious arguments, weighing the options, taking the measure of a President who came across as confident, wry and eager to engage. (And who, yes, sometimes says dumb things and apologizes for them...