Root causes and OPL profiles need to drive financial decisions. Currently, society pays a huge price from a perceived need by providers of health-related products and services to cover their sunk costs. This causes a downward spiral in outcomes that levies untold costs to society. More than anything else, the 2020 Program is designed to reverse this trend.

From a policy standpoint, governments need to establish policies to encourage the adoption of technologies the support the eradication of root causes. By the same token, they need to mitigate the damage from provider commitments to technologies that are invalidated by new findings with regard to root causes of disease and possibilities for improved performance.