Don't the rich get cancer and extreme weather events?

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4. The rich have access to the best *available* health care, but if research is defunded,

that available health care might not be good enough any more. Some illnesses and conditions aren't curable yet, even with the best treatment, but scientists have been working on cures for Alzheimer's, some presently incurable cancers and other diseases that even rich people get. Right now Alzheimer's is incurable, and so is glioblastoma, the cancer that killed Ted Kennedy, John McCain and Beau Biden, people with access to the best available health care. Pancreatic cancer is incurable. So are Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy. Rich people get those diseases. Cures or at least better treatments could be found if research was supported, but it no longer will be. Maybe scientists in other countries, which are already luring our scientists to their universities and laboratories, will be able to do it, but not the US, not any more.

And the rich will not be safe from the consequences of climate change and extreme weather events, either. Their homes, factories and offices can be submerged, blown away, or burned up. And they have to breathe the same air and drink the same water. The wealthy might not suffer as much as the rest of us, but they will suffer.