I would expect an article title like this to be backed up by some dramatic increase in healthcare availability (like free healthcare in the U.S.) but no, it's just the people at the high end have access to better care than ever before. Hooray.
Ultimately, the supply of healthcare is increasing, but still finite. The demand for healthcare is unlimited.
Your claim is fundamentally impossible. Regardless of what kind of system is used to subsidize care, there’s still a problem of allocating limited resources. It’s always a tradeoff between prices (or levels of subsidization), eligibility requirements and, at the margins, waiting times.
The desire for health care is virtually limitless. Spain could literally spend its entire GDP on medical care and not meet everyone’s needs.
Would I like to make things better for the bottom third? Absolutely. Am I happy about progress made that will improve the life of the rest of us? Also yes.
And access to these technologies is much faster than most healthcare systems in the world.
I mean, 85% are insured and ambulances are paid for.
“We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation”
One of us must have developed a flawed model of the world in which we live.
A lot of innovation starts off expensive then becomes much cheaper, and more prevalent, over time. Do we agree on this model? Electric vehicles, televisions, computers, DNA sequencing,…
The “astonishing innovation” developed today will be everywhere within a decade.