A patent has recently been filed for a musical condom. It is, apparently, a chip-controlled piezoelectric sound transducer which plays a melody or a voiced message during intercourse whether the contracts of the sound-playing unit are closed and the transducer activated.
No what could the health departments do with an innovation like this!
The frustration with institutions isn’t wrong. But the explanation usually is. The problem isn’t political will or institutional timidity. It’s a design built for a world that no longer exists.
Efficiency built the care systems we have. It is not sufficient to sustain them through what’s coming. The pressures arriving into health and aged care are structural, not cyclical, and the response needs to match.
The model is sound. The assumptions have been stress-tested. And the project is still harder to deliver than the numbers suggested. The problem isn’t the modelling. It’s what the model assumes about the world.