EQUIVALENT INCOME AND FAIR EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE
提出基于等效收入概念的非福利主义方法,用于医疗保健的经济评估,兼顾个体偏好与分配公平,并通过试点调查验证可行性。
We argue that the economic evaluation of health care (cost-benefit analysis) should respect individual preferences and should incorporate distributional considerations. Relying on individual preferences does not imply subjective welfarism. We propose a particular non-welfarist approach, based on the concept of equivalent income, and show how it helps to define distributional weights. We illustrate the feasibility of our approach with empirical results from a pilot survey.