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.
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.
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.