Excerpt: At a recent Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles, in which Wharton was a participant, a number of industry notables from both the buy-side and sell-side of the market crossed swords over the hurdles that the industry currently faces and disagreed about where responsibility lies for some of the problems. But they were in broad agreement about what should be done to combat rising healthcare costs and improve the quality of medical treatment that patients receive.  MORE >>