In last night’s speech on health care reform, President Obama outlined his plan to make affordable health care available to all U.S. citizens, an important and worthy undertaking. Important organizations and individuals are working to ensure that the efforts to restrain and cut costs do not come at the expense of our scientific leadership, which has made the U.S. the leading innovator in developing new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics that improve health and save lives. But perhaps less well known is the critical benefit this innovation has not just on U.S. citizens, but on people around the globe.