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There are also higher order effects in terms of business model - if you look at the broader business model of health care.

A concrete examples abound in the infectious disease space - many antibiotics are curative of something that would otherwise be fatal - and while there isn't a huge amount of money in antibiotics it has in effect contributed to the larger market of older people's diseases like cancer.

Every intervention simply delays death - and the older you get the more health care you need.





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