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Re:Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds by ProjectArcturis on Saturday January 21, 2023 @09:40PM (#34473636)
If that were the system, doctors would be incentivized to sign up as many healthy young people as possible, and to fire them as patients as soon as they got sick.
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Re:Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds by detrites on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:26AM (#34475464)
Agree, it's not a system that would work as I described it - for me it just raises interesting questions.

One way it could be modified would be if doctors had a cap on patients, couldn't refuse to treat their existing ones, and couldn't take on new ones. The cap amount being based on life expectancy balanced against a competitive income.

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