President-elect Obama offered a concrete proposal to save the typical family $2,500 on medical expenditures. Measuring progress towards that goal requires statistics the federal government does not currently calculate. In addition to providing new measures, the federal government should help those who have health insurance through employers understand just how much that coverage costs.

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The P4 laboratory, on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)