Can genomics bend the cost curve?

摘要

In 1960, us health care expenditures totaled slightly more than $ 100 per person and 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Now in 2012, individual health care expenditures are more than $8000 per year and the proportion of the GDP spent on health care is more than 17%. Health care costs are widely believed to contribute to the economic challenges faced by the public and private sectors of the US economy. Calls to bend the health care cost curve have become headline news.