Would health care reform stifle innovation?

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The American health care system is notoriously inefficient, but it is also highly innovative � providing new drugs and new technologies that benefit the entire world. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with health policy researcher Zack Cooper of the London School of Economics about whether US efforts to reform health care could mean a loss of medical innovation for the rest of the world.

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