Medicine (Score 1)

When reading this article I couldn't help but think about the advances of modern medicine especially what is comming with the age of gene therepy and nano technology... and then I thought, why?

The article states the life expectancy of Costa Ricans is about the same as the US (and hence the rest of the developed world). So what does spending 18 times as much on health care buy us, a very slightly longer life and a lot of extra complications.

Complications such as:

- The super virii that are immune to all antibiotics because our "refinements" have been way over used by a pill popping quick fix culture.

- The dangers of missusing cloning IMHO outway any benifits that the technology will bring. Once the gene is out of the bottle there's no putting it back, people with money and power WILL misuse it.