Our friend Peter Huber (senior fellow, Manhattan Institute) has a provocative article in the current issue of City Journal, “Curing Diversity.”
Huber discusses, among other things, the current inflection point of innovation vs. cost and how we got to where we are.
Some of his comments to whet your appetite”
“Pharmacology has found better ways to tame smaller shards of hostile life while dodging friendly molecular bystanders. And in scrambling to do all that, it has revealed that we aren't all the same deep down, neither in sickness nor in health.”
But …
“The Fourteenth Amendment doesn't guarantee equal protection at the pharmacy … So the stage is set for a long battle between radically new medical science and a senescent, unscientific vision of how diseases are cured and what the "health-care system" ought somehow to deliver.”
Huber is the first policy wonk (as far as I know) to compare a restrictive formulary to a cheese wheel:
“Charles de Gaulle once wondered how anyone could govern a nation that had 246 different kinds of cheese. Designer medicine could probably stock that many varieties on just the cholesterol shelf of its fromagerie. The simplest fix: fewer cheeses.”
There's a punchline in there somewhere.
Huber discusses, among other things, the current inflection point of innovation vs. cost and how we got to where we are.
Some of his comments to whet your appetite”
“Pharmacology has found better ways to tame smaller shards of hostile life while dodging friendly molecular bystanders. And in scrambling to do all that, it has revealed that we aren't all the same deep down, neither in sickness nor in health.”
But …
“The Fourteenth Amendment doesn't guarantee equal protection at the pharmacy … So the stage is set for a long battle between radically new medical science and a senescent, unscientific vision of how diseases are cured and what the "health-care system" ought somehow to deliver.”
Huber is the first policy wonk (as far as I know) to compare a restrictive formulary to a cheese wheel:
“Charles de Gaulle once wondered how anyone could govern a nation that had 246 different kinds of cheese. Designer medicine could probably stock that many varieties on just the cholesterol shelf of its fromagerie. The simplest fix: fewer cheeses.”
There's a punchline in there somewhere.
