Seven Easy Steps for Reforming Healthcare
- patricklewisbaker
- Feb 25
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 21
The new administration has at last come to DC, and opportunities for genuine reform, it seems, abound. Positive energy has been flowing since the recent “vibe-shift” made cracks in the edifice of the progressive status quo. The breadth of the new governing coalition—from post-liberal populists to libertarians and practically everything in between those poles—has opened up a realm of creativity and enthusiasm for seeking fresh solutions to problems long thought to be intractable.
The last libertarian moment came and went circa 2008, giving way to the Woke Era, when the nursemaids of the progressive nanny state rolled their prams triumphantly through the institutions. Now, suddenly, tech billionaires have rediscovered their inner libertarian, DOGE is rattling—indeed smashing—the teacups of administrative state mandarins, even if they operate in a sometimes testy “Rebel Alliance” with populists. Most unlikely of all, Javier Milei, the tousled-headed Austrian-school economist, is showing the way forward after an extraordinarily successful year as president of Argentina.
In the first sixty years of my life, healthcare was always recognized as a progressive issue…