In this BIL:PIL presentation, Scott Johnson, founder and president of the MRF, describes the high costs of the traditional medical research system (how it hurts individuals with chronic diseases through loss of productive years, loss of years in life, pain, cost to families) as well as the financial costs of the system.
Johnson then dissects how and why the research system is broken and how he tackled the problem with an outsider’s view, a “clean sheet of paper” and a plan.
More from BIL:PIL 2009
- Can Sleep Shed Light on the Brain’s Dark Matter? — Dr. Philip Steven Low
- Capitalism and Activism for Healthcare Reform — Tyler Willis
- Communities in Healthcare — Chia Hwu
- Full Digital Reconstructions of Brains — Todd Huffman
More on Health & Longevity
- 10 Weird Tricks to not Die — Romeo Stevens ▶ video
- A Dietary Anti-aging Protocol — Josh Whiton ▶ video
- A Garage-Level Biomedical Research Effort is Taking on Death — John Schloendorn
- A New Basic Human Skill — Richard Gordon