I think the author's methodology (or at least the article's synopsis of it) seems a somewhat flawed premise. Suggesting that we focus less on conventional medi

I think the author's methodology (or at least the article's synopsis of it) seems a somewhat flawed premise. Suggesting that we focus less on conventional medicine in order to raise the bar in other areas neglects the massive waste and allocation in the market system. One of the fundamental things that increases lifespan is diet. I've read in numerous sources the approx life span of humans should be 120 years if they don't suffer a medical trauma. Now we have the ability to deliver the optimum diet to achieve that we don't. Instead we subsidize meat until people get fat heavy diets, etc. The Macdonalds culture has created a culture where non-nutritious foods are the cheapest to consumers, despite the real cost of production. The author can try to justify leeching resource from numerous areas of society to create "competitive advantage" but until governments remove the impediments to have healthy food cost less nothing much else we do will mean much.