SimHealth
Sign in to saveSimHealth: The National Health Care Simulation is a management simulation video game developed by Thinking Tools and published by Maxis in 1994 for MS-DOS with assistance from the Markle Foundation. It is a simulation of the United States healthcare system. The game was released during congressional debates on the Clinton health care plan.
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SimHealth has a rather serious subject matter: the debate in the summer of 1994 over what kind of health care system the United States should have. The player gets the usual godlike power, being able to choose what proposals to adopt and even what assumptions should be in the underlying mathematical models (an especially good thing, since many of the models turned out to be so very wrong).
- Released
- 1994
- Genres
- Simulator
- Platforms
- DOS
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- Sim
- Developer
- Thinking Tools, Inc.
- Publisher
- Maxis
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Maxis
- Narrative location
- United States
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Game mode
- single-player video game
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- publication date
- 1994-00-00
- hashtag
- SimHealth
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SimHealth: The National Health Care Simulation is a management simulation video game developed by Thinking Tools and published by Maxis in 1994 for MS-DOS with assistance from the Markle Foundation. It is a simulation of the United States healthcare system. The game was released during congressional debates on the Clinton health care plan.
Due to the complexity of the game, SimHealth was seen as being very difficult. Armed with none of the tongue-in-cheek humor that Maxis' prior games were known for, the only real link to the franchise was the SimCity 2000-inspired user interface. The game was seen as more serious than other Maxis games. Noel Fritzinger, who with Lyman Orton first conceptualized CommunityViz, says that his inspiration came from seeing SimHealth and wondering if the same concepts could be applied to real-world land-use planning.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SimHealth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.