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I'm having a hard time finding any data that support the conclusions of this article. My mom is an immunologist, and in 1999 my family moved from France to the

• anigbrowl 13y ago
  Sick and aging people are a growth industry for the next 20-30 years, thanks to the demographic bulge the country experienced following WW2 resulting in a large and wealthy generation known as the 'baby boomers,' who are now retiring en masse. Other developed economies had similar demographic bulges, but none large as the US or with the same sort of competitive medical services market. As I pointed out above, funding for health research (through the NIH) has tripled over the last 25 years. The picture is not as rosy for scientists outside the medical field.