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LosWochosWeek | 3 years ago

We've also seen the opposite being true. In Germany, oddly enough. It was called "Praxisgebühr" and it was a 10€ fee that you had to pay once per quarter year (if you went to a doctor in that quarter). Turns out, once people paid the 10€ they got into a all-you-can-eat frenzy and visited more doctors than they normally would have done, because "well, I paid for it, so might as well take advantage of it".

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stavros|3 years ago

That's not so much the opposite, but I agree. If it were 5€ per visit, you'd probably see a lot less of this.

oneplane|3 years ago

We have a system where you're going to pay about 350 per year for those little things if you use them. Going into a frenzy using all of that is just going to waste your own time as it takes quite some effort to use up that 350 already.

Then again, regardless of the rules and processes we make, there will always be people misusing/abusing it.