How does it raise the severity? Dopers still lose pension and job in the current plan (right?), the plan merely makes it so riders don't feel as desperate. Riders who are winning will always have the incentive to dope to win, that can only be address by what you explain, but for the others if just making a Continental team means enough money to sustain a family on a pension I think you'd see a lot of the riders who are doping to merely keep their job whom I suspect are a much larger portion of doping riders.