According to the dominant view of our times, economic growth is the end and educated, healthy human is the means. Amartya Sen changed the direction within this realation and made growth the means and the healthy human the end. This should be corner stone of a new health care paradigm.

The original intention of the so-called third way is to step beyond the division between the old left and the new right. This was meant to be the basis for the renewal of social democracy. In practical sense, the main objective of third way thinkers is to explain why the post-war welfare state has to be abolished.