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This is just another way of saying there have been no big advances in clinical anti-ageing. And that's probably because little serious effort is going into it,
by lokrian 1y ago
This is just another way of saying there have been no big advances in clinical anti-ageing. And that's probably because little serious effort is going into it, compared with say, military spending.
- lumost 1y agoIt's easy to poke at the military budget as wasteful, but human history has shown that military expenditure is at a minimum, necessary. The same cannot be said of most preferred spending avenues for the cause of the day.
- schappim 1y agoI'm reading that the US spends about $893 billion[1] on national defence and about $5.3 trillion on health care in 2024, with spending on track for roughly $5.6 trillion in 2025 [2][3]. These figures don't match my intuition... --- [1] https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IN/PDF/IN12425/IN12425.4.pdf https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IN/PDF/IN1242... [2] https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00545 https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.0... [3] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-much-is-health-spending-expected-to-grow/ https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-muc...
- BobaFloutist 1y agoAre you comparing total health care spending to direct government spending on the military?