U.S. health care costs are high – over $3 trillion annually and about 18 percent of our GDP.  Estimates suggest that our costs are rising.  Concomitantly, we are entering an era of extreme biomedical promise, where research breakthroughs are translating into unprecedented clinical benefit.

Luxturna from Spark therapeutics, for example, remarkably restores vision loss in patients with a specific eye disease.  With amazing innovations, …

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Following a relatively routine doctor appointment, I received my bill for over $1,000. I rubbed my eyes, hoping to find an overlooked decimal point. I didn’t.

My experience is not unique. We have a problem in the U.S. We pay over $3 trillion annually for health care — about 18 percent of our GDP. No other developed nation spends more than Read more…