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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by tnuc on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @03:13PM (#6407363)
Unfortunately this is most of the politics that drives health care in the USA. Most people in the US don't even get close to old age because they don't have access to adequate healthcare.

Bill Gates is saving thousands of lives by trying to wipe out diseases that generally affect poor people for very little money per life saved. While in the US millions is spent per person to provide longer lives for a few people.

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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by olalonde on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @06:05PM (#6408466)
> Most people in the US don't even get close to old age

What? The average life expectancy in the US is 79 years old... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...

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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by adventured on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @11:12PM (#6409566)
What a bizarre statement.

Life expectancy is nearly 80 years in the US at this point, even with the explosion of cancer, heart disease and diabetes that has come with obesity in the last 30 years.

You'd have to be defining old age as 140 for your statement to make sense.

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