Healthcare Priority-Setting: Chat-Ting Is Not Enough; Comment on “Swiss-CHAT: Citizens Discuss Priorities for Swiss Health Insurance Coverage”

Document Type : Commentary

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Center for Ethics, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Abstract

CHAT has its limits. It is a three-hour exercise. However, the real world problems of healthcare rationing and priority-setting are too complex for a three-hour exercise. What is needed, as a supplement, are sustained processes of rational democratic deliberation that can address the challenges to healthcare justice posed by costly emerging medical technologies, such as these targeted cancer therapies.

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  • Receive Date: 30 May 2018
  • Revise Date: 15 July 2018
  • Accept Date: 16 July 2018
  • First Publish Date: 01 October 2018

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