Cost Containment in Oregon: As Simple as A×B?
Abstract
To the Editor.
—In his review of Oregon's methods for cost containment, Dr Eddy1 argues with his usual clarity that the failure was due to errors in the data (specifically cost data errors and imprecision in Quality of Well-Being Scale state definitions), the omission of important value elements (eg, the Rule of Rescue or the vicarious utility), and the misapplication of one particular method, directed toward "egalitarian" goals, when another...