| There's only two things that are certain in this world, death and taxes - Benjamin Franklin. The main purpose of screening for early disease or genetic condition detection regardless of the diseases or illness, cancer, heart attack, stroke, etc, is not really to prolong longevity, even though that's a wonderful side effect, but the main thing to prevent complication(s) that may arise from the late detection. Apparently death does not incurs extra and massive medical bills, on the other hand complications will certainly do. If you connect the dots, this suddenly become a really good and plausible conspiracy theory. It's a shame that most of the health organizations, I'm looking at you American Heart Association (AHA), are really against any form of routine screening [1],[2]. [1] American Heart Association 14-Element Screening (Maron, BJ Circulation 2014): https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/ppc/documents/HSuper... [2] ACC/AHA Release Recommendations For Congenital and Genetic Heart Disease Screenings in Youth: https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2014/09/15... |