No universo, porque as pessoas que viviam no Elysium eram gananciosas e queriam acumular a tecnologia para si mesmas.
Fora do universo, é porque as camas não pretendem ser reais. De acordo com o diretor do filme, Neil Blomkpamp, eles são apenas um http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/elysium-director-neill-blomkamp-on-technology-society-and-the-ystopia- entre a metáfora da pobreza médica :
So, on Elysium you can imagine that if you went totally speculative sci-fi in the year 2154, the film becomes different, then you’re making a film about speculative ideas of what society might be like and what will happen is they’re no longer rich. Now it’s more like Star Trek, like there’s something else and the link between, ‘Oh, they’re rich people with pools’ has been lost.
So the medpods weren’t there for science fiction reasons, they were there just to represent that the poverty stricken person from El Salvador could go into parts of LA to get better medical attention or medical care for their kids. Medical aid is one of the things the First World has and longevity if you just look at the stats. So it was more a metaphor tool, but you are right in the sense about … like, well how far do they go, at what point is it just immortality? I think they probably live a few hundred years and then they die in the construct of the film.