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Healthcare

How is Healthcare funded in your world?

• This can vary from race to race and culture to culture.
• In the lands 'The Treaty' watches over, healthcare in mainly covered via taxes and small fees that the 'Healers Guild' may charge.
• Amongst human kingdoms it can be covered by taxes for royalty and their direct workers, others must pay out of pocket.
• Dwarves have healthcare paid via taxes.
• Elves pay for healthcare out of pocket.
• Orcs barter with goods for access to a healer if there isn't a healer in the tribe.
• Travelers may pay a flat fee to have a healer travel with them.

How does healthcare functionally differ between the wealthy and the poor?

• Typically across the races and cultures the rich can afford better healers and better medical supplies than the poor.
• However there are healers that travel from settlement to settlement, offering their services in exchange for a meal and a place to sleep for the night.
• To magically speed up healing can be expensive, so the poor can't afford this.

Where are health centers?

• There is typically at least one 'health center' in each large city and settlements.
• Smaller settlements and those far from the big cities often don't have healers that live in them. These places either rely on traveling healers or local herbalists.
• Small settlements have higher death rates due to raids, lack of supplies and lack of near-by healers.

How does magic affect healthcare?

• Magic can accelerate healing or reduce symptoms, but it cannot completely heal large wounds or treat illnesses.
• Mainly only the rich can afford magic healing.
• Some groups consider using magic to accelerate healing to be taboo.
• Maybe magic healing can leave some sort of mark?

Magical vs physical healing

• Physical healing is a must.
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• Magic is a luxury that only increases healing reduces symptoms. It can't completely heal and requires a lot of energy.

Common Illnesses

• Still gotta create some illnesses
• Zombie Fungus can become outbreaks if not dealt with quickly.

What do races think illness are?

• Some view them as curses/punishments.
• Don't know what viruses and bacteria are.
• Understand that X causes Y (Ex drinking unclean water causes upset stomach, not cleaning wounds cause infections.