Pricing Life: Blurbs
“Ubel makes a decisive case for the ubiquity and desirability of health care rationing, and clarifies the limitations and promise of cost-effectiveness analysis for making rationing choices. His book should be read by anyone concerned with the future of the health care system-no other book does more to illuminate these difficult and important issues.”
Dan W. Brock, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health
“Pricing Life provides an original and penetrating analysis of health care rationing and cost-effectiveness analysis by a physician who confronts these issues every day. Peter Ubel’s insights need to be taken seriously by anyone interested in both a fairer and more efficient health care system.”
Ezekiel J. Emanuel MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health
“Ubel’s book is quite possibly the very best available on the question of rationing health care and all the policy and ethical problems attending any reasonable discussion on the matter. It is a first-rate contribution.”
Robert Almeder, Editor, The American Philosophical Quarterly
“An honest, no-holds-barred look at health care rationing, with a plea for cost-effectiveness analysis. Who could argue? Current rationing is hardly rational.”
Alfred I. Tauber, MD, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
“The style of writing is personal (first person), conversational, anecdotal, self-deprecatingly disarming, gently persuasive, and often very amusing.”
Alan Williams, Health Economics