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Exactly, that's one reason why government paid social health care is aligned with this: The government benefits from doing prevention programmes as it is cheape

Exactly, that's one reason why government paid social health care is aligned with this: The government benefits from doing prevention programmes as it is cheaper than late treatment. Germany had all kind of preventative help/medicine when I lived there.

refurb 6y ago
Why would a private insurer not have the same incentive? Collect full premiums, but overall lower costs with early detection and treatment?
- mbg721 6y ago
  The older and sicker patients tend to move from the private insurer's risk pool to the public one.
  - refurb 6y ago
    Agreed. But there is still an incentive for private insurers to limit future costs.