February 24, 2011 -- At my alma mater UCSF, I attended a symposium on innovation in California. Innovation is our strength (Silicon Valley!) and it will create jobs and revive our economy. The symposium was a star-studded event. The speakers included one of my heroes, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. Sitting next to me was Elizabeth Blackburn, a Nobel prize winner. Another speaker was former California Governor Gray Davis (whose hand I shook). He said, "If you're born in the east, you grow up and you want to join something. If you're born in California, you grow up and you want to start something." Indeed I do... Here it is (Powerpoint, of course)... Wish me luck... |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798