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The health care industry is extremely diverse and includes pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, payors (insurance companies, Medicaid , Medicare , providers (physicians), hospitals, and Health Maintenance Organizations. In the United States, the health care system is under immense scrutiny as we spend nearly 17% of our GDP on health care services yet have one of the least healthy populations on the planet. Current issues plaguing the system include an obesity epidemic, 45 million people without health insurance, lower reimbursement payouts to physicians, an aging baby boomer population, and a more stringent regulatory environment making the drug approval process more costly and lengthy.

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