Showing posts with label Planet Hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planet Hospital. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 July 2011

Planet Hospital's Diaspora project



It is unclear whether Planet Hospital's pilot project 'Diaspora' was fully launched in 2010. Only a few articles exist online that talk about it - and only in the future tense:
The project appears to have first chosen to focus on Mexicans living in the US, though articles suggest that El Salvadoreans were initially meant to be the first test-subjects for this global accident insurance policy that covers emergency care in the US and non-emergency care back in migrants' countries of origin (it doesn't cover pre-existing conditions -- but it also won't deny coverage based on pre-existings). Filipinos living in the US also appear to have been on the list of prospective groups to cover in the future.