"Obscure Newspaper Discovers 40-year-old Concept Widely Used in Medical Literature"
The concept of QALY goes back to 1976[0] and is a mainstay of cost-effectiveness literature. Fair to say there has sometimes been resistance to its application in the US, where we like to pretend that we are equitable in providing care. But odd that WSJ seems to have just discovered this idea.
[0] https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/21/5/402/578296