America’s Largest Health Insurer Is Giving Apartments to Homeless People
&gt; This is just sad. This is just stupid,” Brenner says. “Why do we let this go on?”<p>Because this is practically textbook definition of a perverse incentive.<p>What about healthy homeless people? Do they get homes? We are encouraging people to be sick and to a abuse the ER. And what about all of the working poor who are doing the right thing, but still have to pay half of their income in rent?<p>The reason we don&#x27;t provide homes is you can never just provide homes to the ones who&#x27;would have abused the ER&#x27; but instead have to provide them to all homeless.<p>Also, as sad as it is to admit, there is a portion of homeless who you could literally buy a house for, and they will still end up homeless.<p>I hope I am wrong and this program works out.