The funding for primary care comes from a bunch of places in NZ, but most of it comes from the government. Most people in NZ don't have private healthcare insur

The funding for primary care comes from a bunch of places in NZ, but most of it comes from the government. Most people in NZ don't have private healthcare insurance, it's just not needed. The way it works is patients 'enroll' with a doctors office, and then the clinic gets funding based on that patient population (how many patients, what sort of patients, etc). GPs still set their own fees ontop of that, but it's usually not much (like $20 USD), as they're competitive. There isn't really an incentive to maximize the number of visits, the goal is to maintain a good patient population, who's satisfied with your services. The average book size for an individual doctor is about 1000 people (might have gone up a bit by now). But I found that number quite interesting, as it lets you frame the job of a doctor quite differently - their job isn't just to take appointments as they come, their job is to keep about 1k people healthy. It lets you think about how else that problem could be solved.