The NYT keeps asking "How can we fix healthcare? But do so without m4a?"

archive.today • Opinion | How to Make Health Care Cheaper and Better - The New York Times
The book goes to a place that most other books on this topic don’t try to go. “Health care is usually assessed with three ‘vital signs’: cost, quality and access.” [...] Those three concerns so dominate the policy discussion that trying to change the subject even a little is almost impossible, the brothers said. Jim compared them to the ruts in a dirt road that a wagon’s wheels keep getting drawn into. “We want to add a fourth vital sign, innovation.”

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M4A is a compromise of a compromise (a compromise to nationalized healthcare, itself a compromise to communism) and would likely be good for the economy as a whole, other than insurance companies and maybe medical providers, but they can't even give us that.
Bernie was literally trying to save capitalism like FDR did, to the point of comparing himself to FDR, but they couldn't even and still can't accept that. Half of us might not even be here if Bernie had won, it's their fuckery that pushed us further left.
- I know it's why I finally became a communist.
“Saving lives by developing new antibiotics ought to be a profitable business, but this turns out not to be true,” they wrote in their book.
Wall.
- Wall is too good
  They get the Pit
“Health care is usually assessed with three ‘vital signs’: cost, quality and access."
“We want to add a fourth vital sign, innovation.”
If I wrote that, it would be hack satire. This guy got a whole book deal out of earnestly writing hack satire.
two brothers
Are they doing the thing where they say "actually US healthcare is really good because we spend so much money on R&D", and ignore that R&D doesn't help people so much if they can't afford the fruits of it?
At this point I just dislike the word "innovation" for having become nothing but a contemptible marketing term.
- Tech bros have their favorite concept: disruption. And a normie version of that has become "innovation".
- It just gets used as a rationalization for neoliberalism; we promise we’re going to be able to make all this great stuff with innovation, but we’re not going to be able to do that if stifling government regulations and taxes are in the way.
Gig economy but for surgeons.
- so your heart surgery is expensive, but can be subsidized in part or in whole, depending on how much of your liver you want to 'donate' to scrooge mcduck
wot if yer doctor was a robot

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