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Originally Posted by WarpathEQ
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Correction: Your healthcare provider wants to treat your symptoms, not cure any illness you may have. They are incentivized to provide a plan for you that maximizes their revenue as a healthcare company not to eliminate issues you may have from your life.
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That term "provider" can have two meanings.
When it refers to your insurance company (or whatever the German socialist equivalent is), then you are 100% correct. In fact, just about all systems tend to be built around the cheapest achievable measurable outcomes, so it makes sense that they'd focus on treating symptoms over the patient (holistically).
But that term can also refer to the healthcare professional (ie. doctor) treating you. I promise, the vast, vast majority of people who go into medicine (especially psychiatric medicine) don't do so because they hate people and want to save insurance companies money
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There's a tension between the two, and many doctors do get beaten down by the system ... but if you can find the kind that truly cares about helping you, they'll find a way to work around the healthcare system to treat you properly, and
that's how you find good treatment.