I often think about this sort of thing because I am fascinated by incentives and how simply changing one's incentives can produce a radical change in behavior. What you've laid out here is a perfect example of incentives being misaligned.
Great post as always @jerrybanfield.
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I agree with you.
One solution regarding changing incentives would be to shift the industry thinking that illness is profitable over to the idea that health is profitable. If we could structure healthcare so that doctors made more money keeping you well, we would see a big improvement.
Agreed @geke especially when we see that health is much more profitable for us as an entire society!
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Exactly. I couldn't agree more. That's the exact way to do it. Shift the incentives.