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What Is The Alternative To Understanding The Complexity Of The World?

One Of The Consequences Of If The Affordable Care Act Is Repealed, Is That All Of Us Now Are At Risk Of Being A Preexisting - Of Having A Preexisting Condition Waiting To Happen. Life, Increasingly, Is A Preexisting Condition Waiting To Happen, Now That We Have More And More Of This Data Available.

The Big Thing That's Happened Is, In The Time Since The Affordable Care Act Has Been Going On, Our Medical Science Has Been Advancing. We Have Now Genomic Data. We Have The Power Of Big Data About What Your Living Patterns Are, What's Happening In Your Body. Even Your Smartphone Can Collect Data About Your Walking Or Your Pulse Or Other Things That Could Be Incredibly Meaningful In Being Able To Predict Whether You Have Disease Coming In The Future And Help Avert Those Problems.

We've Created A Multitrillion-dollar Edifice For Dispensing The Medical Equivalent Of Lottery Tickets - And Have Only The Rudiments Of A System To Prepare Patients For The Near Certainty That Those Tickets Will Not Win. Hope Is Not A Plan, But Hope Is Our Plan.

No Travel Ban Or Quarantine Will Seal A Country Completely. Even If Travel Could Be Reduced By Eighty Per Cent-itself A Feat-models Predict That New Transmissions Would Be Delayed Only A Few Weeks. Worse, It Would Only Drive An Increase In The Number Of Cases At The Source. Health-care Workers Who Have Fallen Ill Would Not Be Able To Get Out For Treatment, And The International Health Personnel Needed To Quell The Outbreak Would No Longer Be Able To Go In.