That’s the somewhat shocking title of a recent article in Time Magazine. The article is about insurance companies determining whether or not to pay for medical treatments for folks based on a cost-benefit analysis that caps human life at about $129,000.
Assigning a dollar figure to Medicare patients’ lives may sound crass, but such valuations [...]
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The Value of a Human Life: $129,000
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