Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3946-3950 (25th February - 1st March 2019)
Is it cold in here?:
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Do AIs get medicare ?
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We know that May got no help from the authorities when she needed repairs, even though they issued her the junk body in the first place. There doesn't seem to be any social insurance program for AIs of working age, and there aren't any over 65.
Zebediah:
May and Melon ought to be covered by MassHealth if nothing else - unless “equal rights for AIs” somehow doesn’t include health insurance. But this threatens to cross into real-world politics. I really don’t want to have another debate about how messed-up health care is in the US. Not going there. Wouldn’t be prudent.
Is it cold in here?:
It seems to be different in the QC world in any event.
Tova:
I would imagine that health insurance for AIs would be at least different policies, if not different companies, just because the procedures and facilities required for AIs and humans would be completely distinct.
Humans need things like anaesthesia and blood transfusions and drugs and organ removal. AIs need things like firmware upgrades/fixes and metalwork and lubricants/coolants and part replacement. And yes, some of those things are analogous but they all require people with different skill sets and different equipment, and different costs, and so the agreements insurance companies have, and the feature sets of the policies, would be entirely different.
War Sparrow:
Comic!
Yes, be kind to bats. Also, anyone else follow the Museum of English Rural Life on Twitter to watch the saga of MERLin unfold? If not, a bat got into their archives. It was above the librarian's paygrade, but another person who works there volunteers at a bat rescue. Merlin was caught, put under observation, and was later released. He has a library card!
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