Public health systems should prioritize total health gains over treating the sickest first

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Younger patients should receive priority when lifesaving treatment is scarce

Doctors should be allowed to prescribe undisclosed placebos when no effective treatment exists

Insurers should be barred from setting premiums using genetic tests

Competent adults should be allowed to sell a kidney

Parents should be allowed to select embryos against adult-onset inherited disease

A placebo's psychological effect is driven by the patient's confidence in the medical professional and their belief that they are receiving a cure

Prescribing undisclosed placebos is a form of deception

Publicly funded healthcare should cover infertility treatment

Creating human embryos solely for experimentation should be permitted

Medicare for All is a viable solution to the U.S. healthcare crisis

Kenya's public health system successfully contained the imported Ebola threat

Canada should exclude mental illness as a sole condition for medically assisted dying

Parents should not be allowed to select embryos for predicted intelligence

Placebos should be used in experiments and the testing of new drugs

Placebos can be helpful for patients even if they are not the most effective treatment

Undisclosed placebos can be useful and effective in the short term

Placebos can improve patient symptoms

Widespread prescription of undisclosed placebos by doctors would lead to a general decline in healthcare costs

If no effective treatment exists for a patient, psychological treatments such as seeing a psychiatrist should be used instead of placebos

Medical professionals should consider the benefit of a treatment, not just its mechanism of action