AI Will Accelerate Inflation Because It Cannot Deliver Value In Today’s Health Care Market David Brailer October 14, 2026

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/ai-accelerate-inflation-because-cannot-deliver-value-today-s-health-care-market?utm_campaign=forefront&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8o6VYvX-F_MRQwbAymZkW7nMA5oZPYQRtQQzdOso1sghWXnfFYQv49r6Z-mN6PvUVQlRQuPcU85RoJhKBGtLCSUg5aVQ&_hsmi=444676880&utm_source=hasu In reply to Jonathan Ketcham’s and Ken Terry’s responses to his original article, David Brailer writes that in a market built around volume rather than value, AI will not be pointed toward health improvement, but toward extraction and the inflation that follows.