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For the humor, mocked up an Amazon page reflecting this scenario:

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The UN doesn’t say that a human life is actually worth $10 million but that’s the number we’re going to use, so the question is as QALY thing how much is a liver transplant worth and it turns out the liver transplant gets you about 25 QALYs, and so running the numbers a liver is only about $3.75 million.




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