Health state after treatment: a reason for discrimination?
研究社会是否应根据患者能获得的健康改善程度来区别对待，通过实验发现社会偏好介于完全反对和完全接受这种歧视之间。
In this paper the issue of discrimination between patients based on the health improvement that each can achieve is addressed. Previous research in this area by Nord has shown that, in this context, society's preferences may be quite opposite to the principle of health maximization present in cost utility analysis. Using a different experimental design from that used by Nord, some results are achieved which suggest that social preferences may be somewhere in between two opposite extremes, which are that discrimination based on the degree of health improvement is never acceptable and that discrimination based on the degree of health improvement is always acceptable.