On the recordMarch 17, 2010
Those are the tragic stories that result from our health care system. But there are also enormous lost opportunities. One of the things that we know about our health care system is people get locked in jobs. They may dream about creating something, a really innovative product, or starting a new business or becoming a great artist, thinking of a new invention that will transform medicine or energy, but they are stuck in their job. A Canadian was telling me about the incredible freedom that people in Canada have to innovate, to experiment, to create, to do all the things that so many Americans, because of our health care system, are unable to do. If America, the United States of America, wants to be number one in innovation, we want to release that creative spirit and that spirit of innovation which is trapped in a job because of health care.
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