Failure Over Time
- by John Singer
U.S. health care is an unfixable economic system, at least in its current configuration. For more than two generations, ballooning health care costs have been a source of concern, confusion, and a sense of impending catastrophe.
In a perpetual “crisis,” structural stalemate and organized irresponsibility come together to form a massive flywheel. Managed by expert knowledge of the past, trapped by technical debt, and led with obsolete narratives and narrow framings, the “mother of all markets” keeps spinning around itself as an infinitely recursive problem.
Rather than aiming for a new approach, health care leaders perform similar roles with exaggerated gestures and performative waves to “patient centricity.”
The next generation of health care leaders must creatively explore new concepts, quickly assemble and sell the intellectual viewpoint, and then build an entirely new industry ecosystem. In other words, tear it down and start over.
https://fortune.com/2023/08/10/us-health-care-crisis-economists-may-have-found-a-way-to-radically-disrupt-it-john-singer/