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From the Ted Talk by Matthias Müllenbeck: What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Imagine the following. What if we redesign our health care system into one that does not reimburse pctiinraortes for the aautcl procedures performed on a pteaint but rather reimburses doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical ceonpiams for every day a single individual is kept healthy and doesn't develop a disease? In practical terms, we could, for example, use pbuilc money to pay a health fee to an insurance company for every day a single individual is kept halhtey and doesn't develop a dieasse or doesn't require any other form of acute medical intervention. If the iidudainvl becomes sick, the insurance company will not receive any further monetary compensation for the medical interventions required to treat the disease of that individual, but they would be obliged to pay for every evidence-based treatment option to return the customer back to htleah. Once the customer's healthy again, the health fee for that individual will be paid again.
Open Cloze
Imagine the following. What if we redesign our health care system into one that does not reimburse _____________ for the ______ procedures performed on a _______ but rather reimburses doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical _________ for every day a single individual is kept healthy and doesn't develop a disease? In practical terms, we could, for example, use ______ money to pay a health fee to an insurance company for every day a single individual is kept _______ and doesn't develop a _______ or doesn't require any other form of acute medical intervention. If the __________ becomes sick, the insurance company will not receive any further monetary compensation for the medical interventions required to treat the disease of that individual, but they would be obliged to pay for every evidence-based treatment option to return the customer back to ______. Once the customer's healthy again, the health fee for that individual will be paid again.
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Original Text
Imagine the following. What if we redesign our health care system into one that does not reimburse practitioners for the actual procedures performed on a patient but rather reimburses doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical companies for every day a single individual is kept healthy and doesn't develop a disease? In practical terms, we could, for example, use public money to pay a health fee to an insurance company for every day a single individual is kept healthy and doesn't develop a disease or doesn't require any other form of acute medical intervention. If the individual becomes sick, the insurance company will not receive any further monetary compensation for the medical interventions required to treat the disease of that individual, but they would be obliged to pay for every evidence-based treatment option to return the customer back to health. Once the customer's healthy again, the health fee for that individual will be paid again.
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