November 23, 2009 10:22AM 

# Would ObamaCare Kill Medical Innovation? 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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Medical innovation — new discoveries that make medical care better and less expensive — is the most important kind of health care reform.

In [this new Cato study](https://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa654.pdf), Glen Whitman and Ray Raad show that the United States leads the world in medical innovation — and that President Obama’s health plan would likely reduce such innovation, to the detriment of the entire world.

This Rea​son​.tv [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadstGm-foY&feature=player_embedded) shows how…

Nice work, boys.

(Cross-posted at NRO’s [The Corner](http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp).)

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