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No problem. The reality is that the medical industry is a sickness industry. Not a wellness industry. There is no incentive for them to make people well, bu
by feralimal 6y ago
No problem. The reality is that the medical industry is a sickness industry. Not a wellness industry. There is no incentive for them to make people well, but every incentive to keep people unwell for a prolonged period.
- StavrosK 6y agoBy that token, there cannot be a "wellness industry". If you pay people to make you well, their incentive is to keep you sick.
- feanaro 6y agoI don't think this is true. This incentive is eliminated by the fact that you can always gauge an industry's success rate. In this case, we gauge how efficient they are at making us well, compared to not following their advice. You can also outsource this gauging to an external entity, which should not have this particular perverse incentive. This solution does not work if we fall down into the trap of having a few gigantic corporations handle everything for us, which unfortunately seems to be the recent trend.
- StavrosK 6y agoThat solution changes the incentive to them just performing slightly better than doing nothing, instead of the best they could. My issue is with the GP implying that there are other fields that do have an incentive to make you maximally well, when I contend is impossible when you're paying someone for cures.
- feanaro 6y ago> That solution changes the incentive to them just performing slightly better than doing nothing, instead of the best they could. Does it? You don't simply gauge whether someone is performing better than the baseline, but how much better. This allows you to select the best performer.