I appreciate there is no way of knowing, but how do you come to this theory?
re- "at least as far". Where would the funding and incentive have come from to have been able to keep pace?
re- "perhaps farther". What about the funding from government and private insurance paying for treatments most couldn't dream of funding for themselves could possibly have hindered advancement?
You see my theory is that government and private insurance funding has made inovation profitable enough for innovation investment to be viable as far as technology is concerned and government funding has made research into disease, cause and treatment, possible. without that funding medical research would probably be profitable enough to produce treatments like viagra. Pharmaceutical companies tend to only invest their own money in competing drugs for ones already on the market. Nearly all new cures are from government funded research.
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