• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Tbf, for profit insurance companies also have a vested interest in keeping you healthy. Healthy people require less care which means more profits.

    It’s just that insurance companies also have a vested interest to make sure that they don’t pay out for expensive treatments either. You can be healthy and then get cancer which is expensive vs be a sloth whose only form of exercise is walking back and forth from the front door to their bed and has heart issues.

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      2 months ago

      individual health is about more than individual health… air quality, stress (including financial, other employment), quit campaigns, etc are all things that are solved at the national or regional government level. they’re all linked with better health outcomes, and incentives and profit motive are aligned when health care is paid for by government