There was also a critical intersection with the ‘third world’ of health-care policy: with that created
by the medical technology industries. Although the ‘command and control’ system in
health care mimicked some of the features of a command and control economy, it is this point
of intersection that reminds us that it was an island of socialism embedded in a large market
economy. For over a century the market economy has been a powerful driver of medical
technology – and a driver increasingly organize don a global scale