which people prefer health care
to be distributed according to the principle ‘to each according to need’ rather than ‘to each according to willingness
(and ability) to pay’ i.e. the extent to which, as citizens, they might be willing to override their preferences as consumers. Whatever the details, future research on the relative merits of CBA and CEA must also consider the relative merits of welfarist and non-welfarist philosophies in the context of allocation decisions in health care