The BCG analysis published in April 2026 makes the same structural argument from the opposite direction: AI alone cannot fix a health system without redesigning it. That framing — offered by a management consultancy whose clients are the systems being critiqued — is its own signal. When the organizations deploying AI tools are told by their own advisors that tools cannot substitute for structural reform, the technical-fix consensus has collapsed from both ends. The academic literature and the industry advisory layer have arrived at the same conclusion through different routes:…