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This is literally amazing research, just because we are getting closer to rejuvenating tissue does not imply that suddenly we will stop dying - it just means vastly increased health span which means less health care cost and more joy in life! Congratulations to the authors of this paper!

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Im not sure this will reduce healthcare costs very much since age related care is already the largest bulk of healthcare costs and living longer at an advanced age, even if relatively healthy, gives more time to accrue costs and age related problems.

I expect if people use healthcare 2x less, then the insurance companies and other companies that make their money from the sick will simply charge 4x more when you need healthcare.

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