I think this tag is useless for Belgium, but that does not mean it is useful in other countries. Let me explain the Belgian situation, so perhaps you can help me here to decide whether it should be used or not.
Everybody in Belgium has public health insurance by one of the 4 "ziekenfondsen". Every health care provider works with them. In some cases, you have to pay the full amount upfront (e.g. dentist), and send the bill to your health care insurance to get some refunding. In other cases, the health care provider only charges you with the amount the public health insurance providers do not pay. (Think hospitals). Typically not the whole amount is refunded, but special tariffs apply for certain groups of people. On top of that you can have a private insurance, which e.g. pay for a single room in a hospital. Sometimes the hospital will send the bill directly to them (*) in other cases you have to pay the remaining amount (not covered by public insurance), and send the bill to your private insurance. Depending on the case and your individual insurance plan, they will pay you back some amount. (*) it is still possible that you have to pay a small part of the total bill. So I doubt it makes sense to map them in Belgium, what do you think ? m On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:19 PM Mhairi O'Hara <mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Voting is now open for the proposed feature insurance:health > > "Indicates the type of health insurance accepted at a health facility" > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:insurance:health > > Please read the page, then add your vote and any additional comments here: > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:insurance:health#Voting > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:staff_count:nurses#Voting> > > -- > *Mhairi O'Hara* > Technical Project Manager > mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org > @mataharimhairi > > > > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* > *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* > web <http://hotosm.org/> > | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> > | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> > | donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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