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How we used to think about #medical costs. One of the most popular novels of the 1990s has a telling aside on the topic. I am working on a piece about Michael Crichton, his 1990 novel Jurassic Park, artificial intelligence, and the perils of advanced science (and scientists). But along the way I wanted to highlight this passage midway through the novel. The visionary behind the park is telling one of his employees why he chose to use genetic engineering to build #dinosaurs rather than #medicines. These days, the idea that drug makers should face any constraints on their pricing is long gone. So is the flip side, that patients have even the slightest responsibility to consider the costs of their treatments (as they would for any other product, including food and shelter). Instead, we have moved to a #privately administered & run, but #government-backstopped, system that is slowly collapsing under its own weight https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/how-we-used-to-think-about-medical