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Now here’s something you don’t read everyday: a joint editorial from John Kerry, Newt Gingrich, and Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s. They take to The Times to argue that our health care system needs a “data-driven information revolution” similar to the one that has beset baseball. “Remarkably, a doctor today can get more data on the starting third baseman on his fantasy baseball team than on the effectiveness of life-and-death medical procedures,” the authors write. By supplementing a doctor’s experience-based expertise with good, hard stats on what works and what doesn’t, we could enter a new era of “evidence-based health care.”