Promise of Mars by Arc True

Author:Arc True [True, Arc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10: Confidentiality

When the Mars Planning Committee had to decide how to structure healthcare on Mars, they had a lot of models to choose from. In the United States alone, they had over a dozen models to look at. There was the VA, fee for service, HMO, pre-Obamacare, post-Obamacare, Massachusetts, individually owned insurance, insurance through employers, the federally run Indian Health Service, and many more.

The model the planning committee eventually chose was tribally-owned Indian Health Service healthcare. Using this model, they created the aptly named Promise Health Corporation. The funding for the corporation came from property tax, but the corporation itself was not a part of the government. Its shareholders consisted exclusively of the entire population of Promise.

This led to an interesting dynamic where shareholders voted for a board that oversaw a corporation whose customers were all the shareholders. Most health systems talk about trying to keep their patients happy, but few had as strong an incentive as the Promise Health Corporation.

Paranoid of satellites, I had parked my crawler under the overhang of a boulder. The sun was setting, and all my lights were off. I had managed to clean the vomit out of my helmet.

I knew thousands of tons of oxygen were being sold to the Fellowship of Mars without being reported. I knew someone was desperate to kill me. Time to figure this out. I made a list of possibilities for the excess oxygen:

1. Companies could be selling reserve oxygen but not reporting it to MARS.

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