In "A Thousand Years Young" from the Futurist Magazine, Aubrey de Grey identifies the medical and biochemical advances that could eventually eliminate all the wear and tear that our bodies and minds suffer as we grow old. Those who undergo continuous repair treatments could live for millennia, remain healthy throughout, and never fear dying of old age.
Elysium's pods, like Star Trek's, seem to possess that ability.
Does your neighborhood have an Emergency Trauma Center nearby? Your neighborhood of the future likely to have "Long-life Health Pods," or is that likely to be in top ranked countries like France, Italy, Malta, Singapore where today's health care is affordable and plentiful?
Oh, yeah, by the way:
The World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the health systems of its 191 member states in its World Health Report 2000. It provided a framework and measurement approach to examine and compare aspects of health systems around the world. [1] It developed a series of performance indicators to assess the overall level and distribution of health in the populations, and the responsiveness and financing of health care services. It was the organization's first ever analysis of the world's health systems. [2]
US ranked 38 th but 1 st in health care expenditure per capita.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems
9. Will earthbound NURSES , unaffiliated with the Koch brothers, just be scraping by in 2154?
Damon's character has a friend -- an overworked, earthbound, single parent nurse living in a small house with a very sick earthbound kid for whom the life-saving medical technology is available only on Elysium. Is today's nurses' workload trend line likely to make her portrayal accurate?
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