Where do the pokemon centers get enough profit to allow free pokemon healthcare?

[skiddo_12]

Being run by the government andHEALsecretOBEYsubliminal advertising.

What government.

 

[Rocket Zigzagoon]

Speaking of Alolan Pokemon Center, Aether Foundation does the same principles as your typical Pokemon Centers, so from what I see, they funded the Centers in Alola region enough to have free and skilled employees and technologies to work at Pokemon Center.

 

[hanecco]

Pokemarts can be a source of profit even if they are separate from Pokemon centers. Perhaps they are owned by the same company.

Alternatively, the mafia...

 

[Nerd Violence]

Pokemarts can be a source of profit even if they are separate from Pokemon centers. Perhaps they are owned by the same company.

Alternatively, the mafia...

Considering they ended up merged into a single building in later games, I could honestly believe that Pokémon Centers are a charity holding of the company that owns and runs PokéMarts.

Kind of like what the Ronald McDonald Houses are to McDonald's.

 

[VulpixQueen]

Taxes and the new gens have pokemarts and cafe in them! maybe they split it

 

[Leaf_Ranger]

Well, of course Pkcenters of part of the evil net run by the Pokémon Association (Pokémon Association - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia ) in it's goal to maintain and promote the cruelty that are Pkmn battles and the business that it drives!
And the nurses being cousins!? Please, they're clones of a person that was so kawaii that it would be perfect to be a nurse and fool everyone with her smile.
TEAM PLASMA FOREVER!!!

 

[Almonds]

Taxes and occasional charity from companies like Silph Co. or Devon Corp, if I had to guess.

 

[Deadman]

If we make serious answers to that question I would assume they are funded through multiple sources:

1. Centers and Marts are run by the same people so while the local care is free anyone who buys in a PokeMart also funds the centers since the calculated prices include some expenditures for the center (like energy/water and stuff since they started to use the same building since a few gens now) or maybe the center gets rental from them.
2. There surely are some people/charity organizations that earn money and love donating to the Pokécenters for them caring for sick or injured Pokémon around.
3. The government (however it looks like in the Pokémon universe) has a budge to give to the regions Pokecenters.
4. Companies giving money to Pokécenters is just another way of PR and with all the trainers staying in the centers here and there, it's a great occasion for advertisements the centers are payed for.
5. Maybe the center also earns a little money through other services like making and/or delivering medicine and house-calls to non licensed trainers.

That's just a few examples but surely enough potential source of income to cover most of their costs.