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The American health care system is expensive, but also highly innovative, providing new drugs and new technologies that benefit the entire world. Could U.S. health reform efforts suppress medical innovation? The World’s Marco Werman speaks with health policy researcher Zack Cooper of the London School of Economics.
- BBC coverage of the health care debate
- The Guardian newspaper: Is public healthcare in the UK as sick as rightwing America claims?
- Zack Cooper’s LSE profile
Your commentator cited Mayo and the Cleveland Clinic as examples of efficiency. Yet Medicare only covers a fraction of the Clinics billed amount for a procedure or visit. Is this what we should expect from the “Obama Health Bill” ?