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For instance, few people would argue that end-of-life patients have a right to life-saving technology regardless of cost.
Note that he assumes that there is a clear-cut distinction between life-saving and other contexts.
Part of the inevitability of cardiac surgery, or any life-saving surgery, is the risk of survival.
The average value takes into account the variations in the price of the drugs as some life-saving drugs are more valuable than the others.
Citizens of less-developed countries simply lack the means to pay market prices for life-saving drugs.
We might instead, for example, prefer to allocate the life-saving drug by tossing a fair coin, giving an equal chance to both patients.
Yet another level of adjustment is made for the allocation of immediate life-saving organs such as the liver.
Limitations can be justified by concern over depletion of public funds, and also over future escalation in the requirements for life-saving expenditures.
