All indications are positive for the U.S. biotech industry including a significant increase in capital funding, drug approvals, and patent applications over the past three years.  This certainly bodes well for continued strong hiring trends in our industry.

However, there is one force so powerful that it can almost single-handedly bring all of this good news from one of the United States’ great industries to a screeching halt.  That force…the politician.

Although we are all for improving our current health care system in terms of making quality health care more accessible for all, we can only hope that the politicians take into account the incredible contributions made by the biotech industry in terms of improving the quality of life for vast numbers of people worldwide and the risks undertaken by these companies to achieve these improvements.