OT: ALS research, hope for Korijo!? Options

[tat2dphreak]

an interesting article.

Researchers Make Discovery That May End Lou Gehrig's Disease

[fiid]

I think the problem extends beyond the FDA. Basically I think the the entire notion of private healthcare is somewhat flawed, since the free market economy is based on certain assumptions about the ability of the market to price goods and services.

Since the value of any living being's own life is always infinate (with the exception of someone in a suicidal state) how do you put a fair price on it?

Another interesting fact is that the US healthcare system wastes enough money each year to provide coverage for all the uninsured in the country. We need to start harassing congress to start actually solving these problems and not pandering to the industry.


The research is really cool though, and seems like it may provide some answers to other diseases than ALS. I think that protein research is going to hold a lot of answers for mankind - it seems like more and more of the real nasties (like CJD, the human variant of mad cow disease) come down to wierd proteins.

Fiid.