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Our medical system is completely wrong. Doctors should get payed for the time their patients are healthy. As soon as they fall ill, payment should stop until

Our medical system is completely wrong. Doctors should get payed for the time their patients are healthy. As soon as they fall ill, payment should stop until they are well again.

zdragnar 7y ago
So patients who have difficult to treat illnesses or low chances of survival don't get treated at all? "Healthy" is also a bit of a misnomer, as there are plenty of (currently) incurable conditions that require treatment not to improve, but to keep from getting worse. For those people, healthy is either not achievable, or is a very different state of being than others.
banads 7y ago
What about people who consciously (or unconsciously) live extremely unhealthy lifestyles?
- ativzzz 7y ago
  They get to pay an "unhealthy lifestyle tax".
  - banads 7y ago
    What about the corporations that push addictive and poisonous food with massive multi hundred million dollar marketing campaigns targeting children?
    - mlang23 7y ago
      Maybe the "free market" isn't such a good idea after all...
refurb 7y ago
Sounds great, but wouldn't that system incentivize doctors to claim patients are "healthy", even when they aren't? "Let's go ahead and schedule your MRI for January. I've almost hit my "health patients" target this year and wouldn't want to mess that up"