re: #582 Obdicut

Heh. Joking aside, there is the fact that we’ve been able to diagnose a lot more than we have in the past, so with rising diagnostic ability comes rising costs, as we treat a larger percentage of the sick population than we’ve actually been able to in the past.

And the Armed Forces are facing a similar problem: thanks to advances in battlefield medicine, more wounded soldiers are surviving, which often winds up costing Uncle Sam more than paying the life insurance for the ones who die.