New Reality

“Have you ever walked around an 19th century (or earlier) graveyard? It gives you a depressing snapshot of the old reality: so many young women dead in childbirth, so many children reaped by diseases. We've been fortunate, we residents of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, that so many of those lethal conditions are treatable, and we're mostly able to live without fear of our children dying in our arms.

But here in the United States, we may have been living in a brief window of time in which treatments are both available and affordable, and are moving into an era where they're available, but only the lucky top few percent are actually available to take advantage them.”