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"Right now, we have a system that rewards disease"

So says a naturalist. He’s right. Here’s what he prosposes:

What if we had a system where you paid your healer a small monthly fee to help keep you healthy? Under such a system, the healer is financially punished when his or her patients aren’t healthy. There’s actually a financial incentive for the healer to make sure that everyone stays as healthy as possible. That would be an economic incentive that turns the entire system of healthcare on its head, because right now our current system financially rewards disease.

This system is called capitation. It was tried before and failed miserably.

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