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