Considering Obamacare has nothing to do with creating better healthcare and everything to do with garnering control and power, what will happen to innovation in medicine once the US goes down the rabbit hole of government healthcare?

From Philip Klein at AMSPECBLOG – The Threat to Medical Innovation (h/t Redstate)

Raymond Raad, a resident in psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and co-author of a new Cato study, presented evidence showing that the United States leads the world in the development of drugs, medical devices, and other advanced treatments. For instance, between 1969 and 2008, 57 of the 97 Nobel Prizes in medicine and physiology — or nearly 60 percent — were awarded to people who did their research in the U.S., and nine of the top 10 medical innovations between 1975 and 2000 were developed here. But these achievements aren’t reflected in rankings of different health care systems that typically show the U.S. faring poorly and provide fodder to those pushing for government-run health care. This even though once these products are developed in the U.S., they become widely available and improve health care outcomes around the world.

As one commenter said:

I was in the UK three years ago and accompanied a colleague to a medical laboratory. The nurses there were still using glass vials to draw blood into. The only thing innovative there are ways to cut corners on health care quality to save a penny.

This is what we in the US have to look forward to!

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