This happens with healthcare data too. Every prescription you fill is tracked and used as input data for many insurance models that make health insurance pricing decisions.
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You should owe the money to the school. Will align incentives. If graduates don’t make enough to pay back the debt then the school could become insolvent. As it should.
People want to be affirmed and loved. The medical system cannot do this.
The healthcare industry will always try to sell a product, celebrate a cure. If not for profit, individual doctors will just do this for a sense of self-worth.
This hunt for it is very parallel to the hunt for the “ether” that Einstein showed didn’t exist. Curiously, the big insight of relativity was getting rid of two bad assumptions: the concept of “simultaneity” and the idea that gravitational acceleration is locally different from other acceleration.
I think the resolution to whatever dark matter is will likely make other fundamental problems in physics simpler as well.
If you read the financial plans of these direct primary care clinics you’ll see that they intentionally lose money on primary care with the strategy of making up for it in increased referrals business.
They have a cool blog at https://yuzu.health/blog that gets into the dynamics of this stuff. Legacy insurance is cooked.