For more than 20 years, much of the national debate on reforming health care has focused on reducing the spiraling cost of everything from drugs, fees and premiums to Medicare reimbursements and even beneficial new technologies. And with good reason: affordability not only affects the health and well being of individual citizens, it affects the financial health of the country as a whole. As the McKinsey Global Network stated in a recent report on the subject: “It is becoming clear that the historic rate of growth of U.S. health care expenditures is unsustainable and is a major contributor to the high national debt levels.”