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It’s not often that I can say, “Dean Kamen agrees with me,” but the inventor of the Segway said some remarkably similar things about the health care debate in an interview with Popular Mechanics that we said in a post we wrote a few months ago.

(Maybe he’s a reader!)

Our post was called The $10 Biopsy And Fighting The Last Health Care War. The point was, essentially, that all this debate about health care insurance and all this money flowing to that cause–whether through a government or private sector solution–is a misplaced investment.

The debate fails to include the massive effect that exponentially-increasing technology will have on the lowering cost of health care. It also denies the possibility for research to significantly cut health care expenses.

Some of the things Kamen says:

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There’s an old military adage.

Generals always fight the the last war.

Rows of men executing Napoleonic tactics were mowed down by increasingly accurate and sophisticated weaponry in the American Civil War.

Gallant European cavalry units galloped into World War I battlefields to meet tanks and machine guns.

World War II generals saw Vietnam like a conventional battlefield, even though it was anything but conventional.

After reading a Discovery Channel report, I’m convinced we’re fighting the last war on health care.
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