I think capitalism just reflects how the red blankets are allocated in this case but the underlying story is about subtle inequalities that have always existed

I think capitalism just reflects how the red blankets are allocated in this case but the underlying story is about subtle inequalities that have always existed since the big bang. Presumably there would be red blankets in every system, e.g. in Cuba or Soviet Russia the party members had red blankets too. If you make the hospital completely independent of any outside influences and mandate no favoritism of any kind, there are still 'friends and family' of employees and so forth. Ultimately our best hope for narrowing inequality seems to come from technology and technology enabled processes that are simply unable to discriminate. If a future MRI machine is invented that can read its own scans as well as a top 10% radiologist, then every patient benefits and the subtle discriminatory tendencies inherent in human nature are rendered obsolete.