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Re:Some young people are buying houses with friends by licebmi__at__ on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:15PM (#19321134)
>"Healthy" society is a weasel word here though: a qualifier that turns this into a "no true scotsman". >In this one, and most real societies, hospitals do want people to visit more often. Their incentives are geared towards that.

This might be true, but I would expect citations. I might be biased, is only anecdote, but my experience around the world would single out USA as a place where this is predominant.

Besides, not all the hospital visits are equal, a clear example of how we can align the incentives are vaccination campaigns.

Re:Some young people are buying houses with friends by coldtea on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:59AM (#19326330)
>This might be true, but I would expect citations. I might be biased, is only anecdote, but my experience around the world would single out USA as a place where this is predominant.

Sure, but most of the discussion on HN focuses on a USA context.

In my country for example, such incentives might not be predominant re: public healthcare (since the staff gets paid whether they have more patients or not), but they are with private practices.