Affordable Care Will Create A Lot Of Good Jobs And Better Medicine

When Obamacare takes center stage in this country, we will have so many more tech jobs available
we may have to hire from abroad if we don't hurry up and educate a great many young people.
I Charlie Rose interviewing Gina Kolata of The New York Times a few days ago. Years earlier, I'd read her book, Flu about the pandemic of a century ago.
In this new interview she was speaking about projects in which scientists had discovered 'dark matter'
in human cancer cells. The discovery is momentous because science has found that if genes in the 'dark matter' of offending cells is turned off, the attackers become harmless.  So the aim now is to find medicines which will turn off said 'dark matter'.
Cancer treatments in our future will not revolve so much around a lot of invasive surgery or extensive
time-consuming chemo therapies. Therapies will be tailor made to turn off destructive matter. The remainder of work to be done to get rid of material left behind in healthy tissue will be likely a process to aid the body as it does the bulk of the work itself, naturally.
What has spurred the new discoveries? According to Ms. Kolata, the sheer volume of data scientists have been able to process because engineering and software processes have advanced so quickly.
Information has become so voluminous, and so much easier to put into real time, that patterns which give rise to problem-solving insights have become much easier to discern these days.
What is one of the things The Affordable Care Act has inherent in its character? Data. Reams and reams more data patients allow providers to share will become available to general information pools.
I hope we will solve many more diseases now on the verge of yielding their terrible
secrets;  and I hope Americans will be using the newer and newer methods of processing and cataloguing this data.