priority setting: right answer to a far too narrow question?; comment on “global developments in priority setting in health”

In their recent editorial, baltussen and colleagues provide a concise summary of the prevailing discourse on priority-setting in health policy. their perspective is entirely consistent with current practice, yet they unintentionally demonstrate the narrowness and moral precariousness of that discourse and practice. i respond with demonstrations of the importance of ‘interrogating scarcity’ in a variety of contexts.