<story><title>Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/military-water-toxic-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseymarquis</author><text>I wonder if there&amp;#x27;s a way to democratize inexpensive health testing and see these trends faster? Imagine a world where you&amp;#x27;re testing your blood&amp;#x2F;sweat&amp;#x2F;saliva&amp;#x2F;vitals daily and semi-anonymously sending the results to be analysed using statistical methods. A doctor can give you a one time use current diagnoses voucher to add into the system for serious diseases. The whole thing is voluntary. There&amp;#x27;s definitely some dystopian abuse potential, but in the US healthcare is already a disaster for a large portion of the population, and this could lessen that. Is it possible for something like this to be created?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>I so wish states were massive scale testing device machines&amp;#x2F;manufacturer.&lt;p&gt;ps: a lot of systemic issues are due to lack of information and trust. To exemplify, there was a story about people electricity consumption. Those with a counter in the basement used a lot more than those with the counter near the front door.</text></comment>
<story><title>Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/military-water-toxic-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseymarquis</author><text>I wonder if there&amp;#x27;s a way to democratize inexpensive health testing and see these trends faster? Imagine a world where you&amp;#x27;re testing your blood&amp;#x2F;sweat&amp;#x2F;saliva&amp;#x2F;vitals daily and semi-anonymously sending the results to be analysed using statistical methods. A doctor can give you a one time use current diagnoses voucher to add into the system for serious diseases. The whole thing is voluntary. There&amp;#x27;s definitely some dystopian abuse potential, but in the US healthcare is already a disaster for a large portion of the population, and this could lessen that. Is it possible for something like this to be created?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rum3</author><text>The US health care system is dystopian. These are just challenges that are not possible to ignore.</text></comment>