One unintended consequence of the world our forefathers left us with is the medical system is impeding the growth of the network and we're not much past the 1970s really. All we've added is kitten gifs. TCP is to blame and the medical system, as always, rushed in to bayonet the wounded. This explains the most recent problem with the network and why the medical system is the part we have to fix.
We changed the world and gave it free ubiquitous global communications and information in less than a decade. Now we must turn our attention to healing the sick, now that we can talk to them all at once.
First, let's examine the nature of the problem.