Innovation is good. How can government promote innovation?
Promoting innovation in medicine is not the the same thing as paying for care. Neither are they unrelated. You can go to Abu Dahbi and check into the plush Cleveland Clinic.
Israel has had socialized medicine. They are also leaders in medical innovation. I think that they have a unique set of circumstances which will not work here.
What we need is an American approach, not a borrowed one. We too are unique.
Shifting resources to medical education and research sounds easy. Yet it is more cultural than that. How to capture the young minds and get them excited. How to make them feel that it is worth trying something new. Words alone are not enough.
There is some role for government there but it is more comprehensive than this narrow focus. Seems like government is always too busy swatting alligators to get back to draining the swamp.
