Jonathan Fleming, a medical researcher and investor, worries about how the Great Recession set back American health. He's concerned that five years from now, we will be no closer to treating and curing diseases like Alzheimer's.
"The thing that will bury us more than anything—more than climate change, more than Iran as a nuclear power—will be millions of demented baby boomers," said Fleming, president and treasurer of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
