Super Care: the best possibly care
When your body has been severely damaged, and it has become impossible to take care of yourself, you now need a lot of care from people to survive, and practical care-tools. Currently, the quality and quantity of care is limited by: financial care budget, availability of care talented people, the care organisation, the care-tools, and also by the rules of government & the health care insurance companies. When you have almost limitless amounts of money, it is possible to increase the quality and quantity of your care substantially. The world ain't fair; some people get no care and thus die, and others get not enough care and of too low a quality, thus get complications, thus die pretty soon. But not everything can be solved with money, and wouldn't it be great if everybody could get super good care?!
The this topic is not written neutral and not considering all kinds of "patients" and care. It is very much from my point of view, which is: being almost completely paralyzed by a very high spinal cord injury (C3/4). I need a lot of care at day and some at night, care available all day every day. I am 55 now (from 1969). My brain is still working, I want to do stuff, and I find it very important to keep "control" over my care/life. I don't like the word "patient" as that is coming from a doctor-patient setting. I prefer calling calling it what it is: physical damage.
Next level CARE
The best solution to being damaged of course is to fully repair the damage. Needing no care because you are healthy is SUPER. Only after losing part your health for ever do you truly realize how amazing that what you took for granted was. What is at the top of your personal wish list? Money? A house, super car, a horse? Or less material wishes like: traveling the world, a great career, a happy family? Things like that are on my personal wish list as well, but one the top of my list are: having more than 1/5 lung power, being able to use my arms, going to the toilet myself, and not living in a cloud of pain. Thus when your body gets damaged somehow, your nr1 personal wish probably becomes to repair your body. But our bodies are biological and build up from a molecular level. We have and use bio-technology and machine-technology, but biology is like a million times more advanced than our current capabilities. Up to the time when we can do complete biological repairs, we have a lot of need for quality human care, and care tools.
There are ways to improve the quality of care today, mainly by better organisation. More money for care can also do a lot of good. But money is always such a thing. Everybody wants/needs money for themselves in the first place. More hope I have for the technologies of the future, I hope for a time of abundance, and cooperation between humans and advanced machines.