[ExI] health insuranc

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 07/10/2025 19:33, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> remove the parasites (the health insurance companies) from the middle, put the money directly into the hospitals.
> To be clear: your suggestion is to remove the registration and all
> that - just, if someone shows up at a US hospital, they get treated?
> Or at least, no medical-specific records are needed - at most the
> sorts of ID that most adults have (such as a driver's license), so
> their records can be looked up to see if they have allergens or the
> like on file?  (Since it would not do to give someone a treatment that
> saves 99% of people but they're in the 1% that die from it.)  (Which
> does leave open the question of the undocumented, but that is at least
> a much smaller problem.)
>
>

Yes.

I imagine most would want their medical records to be available, so 
would be able to produce an ID of some sort (in the UK we have NHS 
numbers), but it shouldn't be required.

-- 
Ben
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