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Life insurance companies should front the cost for longevity doctors 

Their incentives are sometimes better aligned with people (help them live longer!) than healthcare insurance companies

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The biggest barriers to longevity imo aren’t access to practitioners but the time and money. Time to work out and to get enough sleep. Money to afford fresh fruit and live somewhere that doesn’t have environmental risks. Etc etc. Why I have revised my stance and become a lot more lenient on drugs. Our whole society is set up to ensure people stay unhealthy. We are unwilling to change that. Who would we be to deny the one bit of relief Or mitigation?

Any incentive set up to reward healthy behavior is basically paying the already rich :( 

I have banged my head against the wall here so many times 

Not sure what you do

But Why would you ever extend a 20yr policy to someone with a pre existing condition? I doubt any insurer would agree to your terms. And the terms are a must have, because you need to guarantee the person will be a customer for that time period to reap the benefit of the investment 

Think you could maybe pull this off with nationalization but that’s a pipe dream 

But I am also unconvinced access to information is the problem. CDC research shows smth like 90% of Americans KNOW excess sugar is bad for you. And yet 

I also have bias. I used to be one of these “know everything” types and now I know too much. It’s mostly  been a negative especially emotionally

it is a fair criticism that this is not the bottleneck for society as a whole

i am thinking on a more atomic level - for a given person with a 20 year policy, even one with a known preexisting condition, does access to more information/testing/etc could move the outcome for a given person farther out and is this worth it for an insurance co if it becomes the difference between having to pay out for the policy or not