General Discussion

Some people don't get it. Musk has probably never had a major illness or a real brush with death. Such an experience changes you. Some people think that they are invulnerable or immortal. It is just not true. If you live long enough, you will likely suffer some sort of malady. Only a few people get through their lives without a major illness or medical threat to their lives.

Anyway, with Musk he may one day find out. All the money in the world won't matter if you get a cancer for which there is no current treatment or cure. Musk is big into rockets and tech, but he apparently knows nothing about biomedicine and the government and university complex that keeps that sector of the economy moving.

Private biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies will be diminished also, as much basic biomedical research is either done by the NIH or is funded by them at universities and hospitals. Private companies build on this basic research and will be much more limited without the basic science that NIH funds. It is a bad situation all around.