Perverse incentives. As one with training in engineering, this is akin to using a positive feedback loop, when a negative one is required, or establishing a feedback loop out of phase.
Forgive me for talking off-hand, it's been a minute since I had to employ my education.
The feedback loop in a stable system pushes back to stability. In an unstable system, it pushes in the opposite direction, increasing a deviation.
Picture a marble in a bowl. When the marble is pushed, it goes up the side of the bowl. It has been disturbed. The feedback of gravity pulls it back toward the center, where it will eventually settle.
If, as the marble rolls back and forth in the bowl, one were to push it repeatedly toward the edge, this is in a direction away from stability.
In the same way, when a healthcare system is financially motivated to cause harm instead of a cure, harm will be caused.
The "health care" industry's business model requires the outcomes will be worse.
Perverse incentives. As one with training in engineering, this is akin to using a positive feedback loop, when a negative one is required, or establishing a feedback loop out of phase.
Forgive me for talking off-hand, it's been a minute since I had to employ my education.
Im listening Tom, please explain.
Thanks.
The feedback loop in a stable system pushes back to stability. In an unstable system, it pushes in the opposite direction, increasing a deviation.
Picture a marble in a bowl. When the marble is pushed, it goes up the side of the bowl. It has been disturbed. The feedback of gravity pulls it back toward the center, where it will eventually settle.
If, as the marble rolls back and forth in the bowl, one were to push it repeatedly toward the edge, this is in a direction away from stability.
In the same way, when a healthcare system is financially motivated to cause harm instead of a cure, harm will be caused.