Addressing the paradox: Health expansion threatening sustainable healthcare

We need to address the paradox that health expansion threatens sustainable healthcare as anti-aging drugs are on the trail from trial to the market and come together with health enhancement measures changing demography and the health of populations. This poses global, social, and professional problems, and challenges clinical medicine as well as health policy. To handle the emerging challenges, we need to address four crucial issues: (1) injustice (access), (2) sustainability, (3) basic human rights, and (4) eugenics. To do so we need to differentiate between health improvements and health enhancements and reinforce medicine's strongest moral appeal: to reduce suffering.

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This passage highlights the paradox that the expansion of health poses a threat to sustainable healthcare due to the development of anti-aging drugs and health enhancement measures. It emphasizes the global, social, and professional problems caused by these changes and the challenges they present to clinical medicine and health policy. To address these emerging challenges, it suggests addressing issues of injustice, sustainability, basic human rights, and eugenics, and focusing on reducing suffering.