President Obama on Sept. 28 discussed progress on his 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative at the Illumina Genomics Forum in San Diego.
“To the extent that progress has been slower than I would have hoped, it has less to do with the particulars of precision medicine and has more do with the fact we still have a big, creaky system that accounts for a sixth of the U.S. economy,” he said, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.
President Obama said the U.S. has “more of a disease care system than a healthcare system,” the newspaper reported.
“Until we reverse the incentive structure and the mindset inside that system, I suspect we are still going to have some problems,” he said.
