AI-Enabled Healthcare Economics: Pricing Abundant Care Consumption

This article argues that AI fundamentally transforms healthcare economics by expanding care capacity and reducing marginal costs, requiring a shift from reactive to proactive care models. The piece challenges the cultural assumption that increased healthcare consumption is inherently negative, proposing that abundant AI-enabled care services should be priced to incentivize better health outcomes and economic productivity. The authors present a quantified case for preventive care's value across healthcare expenditure reduction, worker productivity, and tax revenue generation.