If this C. ben Mitchell is serious about improving access to good health for the poor, he should do everything he can to support the SENS project. The SENS project (strategies foe engineered negligible senescence) offers a realistic approach to curing aging within 15 years for about $1billion. The cost of the resulting therapy would be closer to that of a flu-vaccine at Costco, than it would be to a surgical proceedure in a hospital.

Given the fact that 90-95% of all health care costs in the U.S. are medicare-related (hence caused by aging), any effective cure for aging would radically reduce the health care costs of our country (and the rest of the world) even if it cost several grand per person.

The lowest cost approach to making the poor healthy is an effective cure for aging. Anyone who is serious about low-cost health care should support SENS.

The SENS website: www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/