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Re:When good ideas make bad business by irq-1 on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:57PM (#21948440)
> There is only one group in the entire industry which has an incentive to keep people healthy (insurance)

The motivation of insurance is to keep the cost of treatment less than the income from premiums -- it doesn't have anything to do with how healthy people are.

Re:When good ideas make bad business by n4r9 on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:14PM (#21948635)
My thoughts exactly. In fact I would modify this to:

> the motivation of insurance is to keep the cost of treatment that they cannot avoid liability for less than the income from premiums

Re:When good ideas make bad business by bduerst on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:35PM (#21948851)
Yep - the motivation of health insurance is to keep people out of hospitals and away from healthcare professionals as much as possible.

Sometimes that aligns with keeping people healthy, but other times that aligns with women not getting routine prenatal screening and thus increasing the infant mortality rate.