Might COVID Enable Structural Reforms?

When an advance copy of Code Blue: Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex arrived in my mailbox last year, I was instantly bored, even though I know and respect the author, Mike Magee, MD. Every reading American already knew that our healthcare "system" was a serious long-term mess, generated by a century of failures, as experienced by a public which for millennia had viewed medicine as a service profession — and a century of successes, as experienced by the many planners and players in American Money-Driven Medicine.

How could this roiling chronic conundrum be painted as a sudden "code blue" emergency.