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From: Tom
Date: 03 Oct 2009
Time: 01:55:27 -0500
Remote Name: 91.148.89.192
I only wanted to comment that uncertainty plays an important role and should be more talked about and quantified. Now you wrote that it is difficult what value to put on something. Like in standard markets, different people put different values on objects. But they will have a price in mind in terms of costs. At the end of the day, everything is about money. Therapists are being paid money by someone. The discussion needs to be quantified. How much would a stutterer pay for X benefit? How much does the health services pay for treatment per year? How much money is lost due to the stuttering handicap to the economy? So I guess if you want to have a question. My question is: The debate in your article is only qualitative. Must stuttering associations not move towards financing a project that looks at outcome (benefit, cost, uncertainty) quantitatively in terms of health economics because only then can we convince politicians, insurers and patients to dedicate more ressources? They want numbers not words?