9 October 2017 - The United States health care system has many problems, but it also promotes more innovation than its counterparts in other nations. 

That’s why discussions of remaking American health care often raise concerns about threats to innovation. But this fear is frequently misapplied and misunderstood.

First, let’s acknowledge that the United States is home to an outsize share of global innovation within the health care sector and more broadly. It has more clinical trials than any other country. It has the most Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine. It has won more patents. At least one publication ranks it No. 1 in overall scientific innovation.

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