Philanthropists and Health Care

Tom Waston, reporting on the conference for onPhilanthrophy, considers the effect of charitable giving on efforts to provide health care:

"Can we peg the importance of charitable giving in extending health care to those who don't have, here in the U.S., and in the developing world?

I'm not so sure. It's certain that the advancement of medicine is increasingly a global phenomenon. But the competing forces so clearly on display here - biotech versus regulators, fast-track scientists versus central bankers to name two examples - muddy the picture. It's a bit like the old lead-in to the Six Million Dollar Man from the 70s: 'we have the technology.' The will is a different story." (More)