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I doubt that costs can increase geometrically for any significant period of time. The technological ramp would have to be enormous. Unless your belief is that c
by houseabsolute 17y ago
I doubt that costs can increase geometrically for any significant period of time. The technological ramp would have to be enormous. Unless your belief is that current technologies will remain at their current prices and new technologies will be built at exclusively higher prices.
- noonespecial 17y agoIts not about any particular technology, per se. It was cheap to die in 1600 no matter what killed you simply because there was very little that could be done. Each year we add more and more expensive interventions from ECMO machines to artificial hearts. Put this together with the "if it can be done, it should be done, damn the cost" attitude we've trained ourselves to expect and we could find ourselves in for a severe reality check. Medical technology seems strangely resistant to Moore's law (witness the price of a CT scan over time), but even if it weren't, the improvements in individual areas might not be enough to offset the growth of intervention technology in general.