Prevention and repair of the root causes of aging should postpone age-related disease, and thereby reduce expenditure. The overwhelming majority of expense occu

Prevention and repair of the root causes of aging should postpone age-related disease, and thereby reduce expenditure. The overwhelming majority of expense occurs in the very late stages of death by aging, dealing with a failing body due to overwhelming levels of cellular and molecular damage and the various systems flailing in response to that damage. If a person never gets to that point, if they can have a health profile that is effectively the same as a 30-40 year old in perpetuity, then the expense remains that way too. Incremental advances towards that ideal will have incremental benefits in terms of cost of medicine over time. None of which changes the fact that entitlement programs are a great evil, and put perverse incentives on the development and provision of services. Technologies enabling us to live for centuries in near perfect health will result in of course a vastly increased lifetime medical cost over the present horrible situation. Why should that be an issue? It should be a grand opportunity for providers of services, just as it should be for food companies, clothing companies, and so on. But instead we have these present debates in which people actually seriously argue that it's great for people to die young.