As proud as we are as Canadians, we and our European cousins must concede that the United States of America is the font of almost all the innovation that the world enjoys today. No where is this more true than in medicine. Almost all of the patented, innovative drugs that we use today have come from US laboratories; 84% of all the Nobel Prizes for Medicine since the 1960’s has gone to Americans. American capitalism and innovation go hand in hand. There is no denying that. In fact, all of the 10,000’s of pharmaceutical products developed over the decades have come from the private sector (except one).