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Private healthcare is for-profit and directly incentivized by an unhealthy population. Public healthcare is non-profit and directly incentivized by a healthy p
by nervousvarun 3y ago
Private healthcare is for-profit and directly incentivized by an unhealthy population.
Public healthcare is non-profit and directly incentivized by a healthy population.
Is this true? Because to my American eyes it has always seemed true.
The obesity epidemic seems like a good case study. Private health care looks to prescription drugs to fix it (subscription model) whereas public conceivably would push community awareness campaigns promoting exercise/diet (no profit stream).
- FollowingTheDao 3y agoI have experience this problem in my own healthcare. When I tell the doctors, I want to focus on diet and metabolics and not medication they do not want to help me. So even the doctors are trained to exist in the for-profit system. And I know I’m in the early stages of ankylosing spondylitis yet since I don’t have any bone deformation yet they just don’t care about my pain.