The fact that healthcare is 18% of GDP and people are embarrassed by that, what it tells me is that we have a priority problem in this country, not a spending problem. If we could actually deliver value in healthcare, I'd want it to be 50% of GDP. I want the majority of our most talented people working on the most important problems, which is extending the quality and length of human life.
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