On Sep 15, 1:35 pm, Joe wrote:
Most experts agree that the United States has set the standard for
health care innovation. Thousands of people from around the world
travel to the U.S. each year for medical treatment not found anywhere
else. But many analysts say America's health care policy needs drastic
reform. Will patients, doctors, insurance companies and the government
see eye-to-eye on health care reform?

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The trouble is medical innovation costs money, and patient care is in
an era of saving money.

Used to be, one of the explicit goals of Medicare was to fund medical
schools. That got cut out.
US pharmaceutical prices are higher, as everybody points out that
funds pharmaceutical research. But insurers are getting tired of
having to carry the world's pharmaceutical research needs on their
backs, and passing them on to you.
Federal funding for basic biological research in universities, without
which there would be no pharmaceutical research, is way down.

And medical innovation doesn't translate into patient care. Folks in
Canada get access to the same medicine that Americans do, even though
they "don't pay their fair share" of the research costs. Or the
marketing costs.