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by therobots927 54 days ago
If we’re talking healthcare no, it doesn’t become affordable. None of the advanced medical tech is affordable.
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You just define "advanced" as not "affordable" and your statement can be true forever!

Except of course, that's nonsense. mRNA vaccines are super advanced and available for a majority of humans. And tech drops in price if it's popular enough.

What about insulin?
So a few things:

- Insulin isn't crazy expensive outside the broken US system

- Let's assume it was, or some other medical advance was, so what? A few examples of something only very slowly going down in price doesn't change the fact that a lot of things DO go down in price or just exists at all due to basic science being done.