The Future of Healthcare: Living to over 150 years

I don’t do it every time, but sometimes, when I get a chance to talk to important people about something that everyone is interested in, I share it, which was certainly the case this week when I had an important meeting with high-level people about the future of healthcare.  These people are interested in helping shape Trump’s next four years into a success story, and our conversation migrated to healthcare and what it should look like by the end of Trump’s next four years.  I was being asked because they wanted an out-of-the-box answer, which I said was probably the easiest thing on Trump’s plate.  Healthcare is super easy to deal with.  It’s only hard if you are trying to preserve the old sickness model where insurance companies profit from the slowed demise of people ahead of death.  That is a dead model, and whenever people talk about health insurance or healthcare in general, that is what they want to throw money at.  And that game has been over for quite a while now.  Which, to that point, was the reason for this important meeting.  And what I told them was worth sharing with everyone else, so I’m happy to let everyone else in on the conversation.  I don’t think we were breaching any NDAs or anything.  I told them about the two problems of the human population in the future and that the Trump administration would have to solve both of them with some connected policy that would let the current system slip away into oblivion and embrace a whole new approach.  We talked about business cycles, and the way we treat people for healthcare ailments is about as practical today as a horse and buggy competing in the Indianapolis 500 is to the racing world.

“So what’s the future look like?” they asked me.  “A lot different,” I said.  We have two main problems: we have a depleted birth rate.  To become a multi-planetary species, we need to have a lot more newborn babies come into the world.  We don’t want to lose so many children to abortion or the decision not to have children because they cost a lot of money. Marriages are complex, and people aren’t so interested in all the hard work it takes to make a family.  We have to change that mindset.  Then we have the other problem: people live for too long in a depleted state.  The extra 20 years that people are living post-retirement can be said only to serve insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry that seeks to profit off the extended demise of people.  Rather than treat them for what’s breaking, we have a financial model that plugs into them as they die and profit off their loss.  Then, the government looks forward to stealing a lifetime of wealth with estate taxes at the end of life.  It’s a cannibal-based system resulting from gross mismanagement by a leadership culture of politics and social influencers.  The solution is in stem cells, where we get them, and how we build healthcare policy around using them to make a society that lives longer and still encourages birth rates to increase for couples inspired to start families and make commitments worth fighting for, which of course got a lot of eager faces hungry for more information.  Stem cells have been around for a while, but we know enough now to build a policy around them as a real healthcare solution that provides the best opportunity for people working in healthcare to continue.  But changing the motivations toward lifetime longevity is profitable longer than just allowing people to become sicker until they die away, leaving little behind gradually. 

Typically, when hospitals provide birthing services to new babies, the afterbirth, the placenta, and umbilical cords are tossed away into the garbage as biowaste, which is entirely foolish.  The placenta and the umbilical cords that give babies new life are valuable; they shouldn’t be thrown in the trash.  Hospitals should sell those items to stem cell labs for treatments for people seeking longevity care for health concerns.  If you wanted a stem cell injection to get a rotator cup repaired or a new knee or hip replacement, you could go to Panama City, Panama, and get a $15,000 injection, which would immediately boost cell growth to fix the problem areas without surgery.  It is a much better method than traditional methods.  Stem cells, especially those out of placentas and umbilical cords, will fix anything naturally and don’t need to be aimed at specific tissue.  When introduced to a body, they present competition to an aging cell structure within the body that finds they need to perform better, which is the result.   Stem cells only stay in the body for a couple of days.  But that infusion of activity jumpstarts the aging cell structure into behaving as it did when the body was much younger.   People find that they heal as they did at the start of their life rather than in a depleted state at the end.   Many sports figures are already using stem cells to fix torn ligaments and worn-out cartilage rather than going through the invasive surgeries that have been the typical path. 

Hospitals could get very rich selling these placentas and umbilical cords to stem cell providers, who could then save the healthcare industry from people slowly dying and being a drag on the entire system.  Not to make it sound bad, but what is more worthless in the world than an older adult who can’t work anymore, who is costing thousands of dollars every week in medical care?  We want that person to live longer and healthier.  Their age limit should be more than 150 years rather than 80 years old as it is now, after essentially 20 years of retirement and lousy health.  Stem cells return people to their youthful healing process, and you can get all the cells you need from new birth rates.  Hospitals to inspire more births could offer nearly free birthing processes to young couples and make all their money off selling the created afterbirth.  Of course, the current healthcare professionals don’t want anybody to know about these methods; they don’t want to change.   They want the government to dump wasted money into an ineffective system.  But at this point, we are about 4 years away from stem cells being mainstream anyway.  It might as well happen during Trump’s term rather than after so he can get the credit for it.   Because the only thing holding us back now is policy.  Not science.  This technology has been around in the form I’m talking about for about 4 to 5 years.  And by 2030, it will be almost as common as going to the dentist.  The cost per stem cell treatment will come down a lot and be affordable.  So, there is no downside.  It’s the future, and it’s here now.  Death and the aging process are decisions, not fate.  And for those concerned about the natural order of things being disrupted by science, I would point to the many biblical characters who lived many years past 100, and if they can live longer and pass down more wisdom to the next generations, then we would be much better off as a culture.  We need to solve both problems, aging and low birth rates, at the same time.  And this is the way to do it within a few short years of the next Trump presidency.  And all that’s keeping us from doing it is ourselves and a very slight refocus on the purpose of healthcare in a social context.

Rich Hoffman

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