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Re:Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients by catalogia on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:54AM (#22125707)
The government may have that incentive, but what about the individual doctors who are actually examining patients and diagnosing people? Do these employees truly share their employer's desire to cut costs?

I don't really believe that doctors are keeping people sick on purpose to keep demand for their profession high, but if that were going on, I don't think socialized healthcare would necessarily erase that incentive. There are plenty of government and private sector workers who try to preserve their own jobs to the detriment of the whole.

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Re:Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients by pimmen on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:58AM (#22125727)
Universal healthcare doesn’t erase that incentive, nothing does. You need a vigilant medical board that penalizes bad doctors to deal with that, fortunately something like that can be reconciled with the system we have in the Nordics.

Of course, it’s far from perfect just like any regulatory agency ever.

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