[benlivengood]

> The recent COVID crisis is an example where QALY based evaluations (which may well have gone either way) were summarily considered "putting a number on the value of a life".

I think a clarification is that a lot of U.S. citizens agree with putting a number on the value of a life but they value lives by the amount of wealth a particular life owns. What they actually don't like is the perception of having to pay their own money for other lives that they don't particularly value while simultaneously discounting their own risk of catastrophic medical costs. Irrational self-dis-interest, to coin a term.

[renewiltord]

You know, I'd agree, except that the criticisms were directed at people who claimed that there may be some balance of kick-starting the economy (saving some number of QALYs) and allowing some number of people to die (losing other QALYs).