Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove Talks About Health-Care Reform and More at City Club

Cleveland Plain Dealer
August 19, 2010

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Clinic Chief Executive Toby Cosgrove told a full house at a City Club speech Wednesday he's concerned that health-care reform could stifle medical innovation...

The issue has been a concern of the medical industry for years, Tom Hubbard, senior program director for the New England Healthcare Institute, said in a telephone interview after the speech. The nonprofit, health-policy institute focuses on supporting innovation that improves the quality of health care and lower costs.

So far, Hubbard said, it appears that Congress and others are listening to the medical industry's worries.

"The Institute of Medicine recognizes the need to protect innovation," Hubbard said. "I think that was acknowledged on both sides of Congress. In general, nobody is against developing the next life-saving drug or the next life-saving device."

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