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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP303: The Conflict Between QALYs for Drug Value and Specific Well-Funded Patient Advocacy Groups, With Anna Kaltenboeck From the Drug Pricing Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Description: You know back in the olden days when a foot of measurement was actually the measure of your own foot? So, I might measure something and it's, like, 19 feet. And then you measure the same exact thing and it's 38 feet because you have tiny feet. This is the analogy that kept running through my mind as I was talking with Anna Kaltenboeck in this health care podcast about QALYs to measure the value of drugs. In this metaphor, QALYs are the ruler so that 1 foot of drug value is the same for everybody and all drugs. It's very civilized...