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John Fleming: “Right. This is his quote. He considers the British health system ``a global treasure.'' In fact, it's my…”

On the recordMay 25, 2010
Right. This is his quote. He considers the British health system ``a global treasure.'' In fact, it's my understanding--I don't have it in my data right here--it's my understanding that he helped design it. And it's designed very simply just to be--a little more technical than what you were describing--is that what they do is they take the population and they assign a value, a numerical value based on quality-adjusted life years. And so just as you say, let's say that the government can afford 1,000 hip replacements this year because of the budget and you've got someone who's 75 with diabetes and let's say somebody 35 who's fully healthy----
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John Fleming
Republican · Louisiana
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May 25, 2010

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The speaker discusses the British health system and its design based on quality-adjusted life years.

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