What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy? | Matthias Mullenbeck

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🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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What if we incentivized doctors to keep us healthy instead of paying them only when we're already sick? Matthias Müllenbeck explains how this radical shift from a sick care system to a true health care system could save us from unnecessary costs and risky procedures -- and keep us healthier for longer.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features business developer Matthias Mullimbeck, recorded live at TED-At-Mirk, K-G-A-Darmstadt, Germany, 2017.
0:11.2	It's 4 a.m. in the morning. I'm waking up in a Boston hotel room and can only think of one thing.
0:20.4	tooth pain. One of my ceramic inlays fell off the evening before. and can only think of one thing. Toothpane.
0:22.4	One of my ceramic inlays fell off the evening before.
0:26.3	Five hours later, I'm sitting in a dentist's chair,
0:30.2	but instead of having a repair of my inlay so that I can get rid of my pain,
0:35.1	the dentist pitches me on the advantages of a titanium implant surgery.
0:40.3	Ever heard of that?
0:42.3	It essentially means to replace a damaged tooth by an artificial one that is screwed into your jaw.
0:51.3	Estimated costs for the implant surgery may add up to $10,000 US dollars.
0:58.3	Replacing the ceramic inlay head before would come at $800 US.
1:04.5	Was it my health?
1:06.6	Or the money that could be earned with me that was the biggest concern for my dentist.
1:12.6	As it turned out, my experience wasn't an isolated case.
1:16.6	A study by an US national newspaper estimated that,
1:20.6	in the United States,
1:22.6	up to 30 percent of all surgical procedures,
1:25.6	including stand-and-pacomacent implementations,
1:29.9	hip replacements, and uterus removals,
1:33.1	were conducted, although other non-surgical treatment options
1:36.5	had not been fully exploited by the physician-in-charge.
1:41.6	Isn't that figure shocking?
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