AMA Journal of Ethics

Novel interventions that are effective and safe but costly suggest the importance of questions about value, accessibility, and affordability.

Modeling how technology assessment fits into cost-effectiveness frameworks can broaden the range of options for improving health equity.

Insurers’ decisions about which services to cover are often based on economic models that are seemingly objective but neglect factors affecting people who are economically disadvantaged.

This digital still from a narrated animated portrait depicts a woman overwhelmed by her body’s failure and by a health care system’s failure to care well.

Justification for using WTP values and QALYs lies in incorporating preferences of those whose treatment could be affected.

Whether any particular perspective is the right one is contingent upon conditions in which the analysis is to be applied.

Allocating resources for interventions requires consensus among stakeholders with a plurality of perspectives about how to weigh antimicrobial stewardship interventions’ risks and benefits.

A canvas of hand-carved woodblock prints in red ink and gold acrylic lettering offers a visual representation of physicians’ impulses to practice healing.

A 3-panel comic illustrates an offer of data to pay for health care services.

Physicians’ primary responsibility is to promote patients’ well-being, which includes not causing financial harm.