I'm afraid I can't vote to approve the current draft of this proposal. I haven't investigated the name of the key (insurance:health) too much, but it would be good to use a key that does not have any risk of confusion.
My main concern is that it is not clear how the value should be used. The suggested examples are =private, =public, or =no - only the last is usually useful. It would be better to suggest that each country or region create values that match the most common and important insurance options. For example, here in Papua Indonesia there are 2 public insurance systems, Papua Sehat from the province, and the new national BPJS Kesehatan which is a private-public corporation. It would be much more helpful to tag these two values rather than "public", especially since BPJS-Kesehatan is only quasi-public. In the USA, "Medicare" and "Medicaid" would be somewhat helpful (much more than just "public"), but you would really want State-specific values like Medi-Cal (California) and Oregon Health Plan (Oregon). I'm not sure about the insurance market in Africa, which is the main focus of this whole proposal, but I suspect similar things will develop over time. Joseph On 8/2/19, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > & as I mentioned some time ago, the example you have used on the proposal > page: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2060334624#map=19/51.33315/6.56633 > appears to be the Customer Service office of a Health Insurance company: > https://www.meine-krankenkasse.de/ ? > > In other words, nothing at all to do with hospital, treatment or what > patients are accepted where. > > That's a bit like listing the head office of a motor insurance firm as a > car repair centre! > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
