You fantasy baseball and football participants out there should love this bipartisan authored article.

You should also love this as a numbers cruncher. If you don't like numbers, then you should read this for a new perspective. Allow me to add one of my own.

Insurance companies employ number crunchers known as actuaries. Their job is to tell insurance companies the odds (out of so many thousand people) of people breaking arms, having babies, contacting a cancer, etc. The insurance companies use that data to set their rates and be profitable.

In the same way, couldn't those numbers be used to predict what diseases will need to be treated on an annual basis and establish the funding needed to treat those conditions, particularly the rare but very expensive ones?

Here's a link to the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/opinion/24beane.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin