> when taxpayers over in America forgo all of that...
Are you really claiming that if the US stopped subsidizing security overseas, American voters and politicians would suddenly begin to support "free healthcare and college" in the US? Your claim is that it's a _budget issue_?
Fascinating paper, and approachable for a layman like me. And in an rarity for academia, reading NEJM’s site is absolutely wonderful on mobile devices.
This opinion is heavily biased toward a white-nationalist narrative. For instance, the second linked “study” is actually a propaganda piece published by the New Century Foundation, an organization described by its founder, Jared Taylor, as “white-separatist”.
Agreed - open body-hacking projects are amazing feats of community and perseverance, but the systemic cost and access issues that plague high-end medicine will persist until they’re addressed systemically.