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97% of the same care at 50% of the cost could be rolled into further R&D which improves outcome faster in the long run.
by kiba 8y ago
97% of the same care at 50% of the cost could be rolled into further R&D which improves outcome faster in the long run.
- aetherson 8y agoMaybe! I mean, that's definitely one way it could go. Or maybe the extra money wouldn't get spent on medical R&D. Or maybe more money spent on medical R&D is reaching a cost/benefit asymptote where there's not much further gain. Or maybe a lot of things. And it's still cold comfort to be told that your or a loved one's inferior care today may (or may not!) be of benefit to a stranger 10 years from now. I want to be clear: I'm not arguing for the current status quo. I agree it has big downsides. I'm asking for people to acknowledge that there are hard problems here that aren't trivially fixed, and even to the extent that some problems are trivially fixed, they still produce some downsides.