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How to combine Japan's My Number Card & health insurance - YouTube
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so in july this year we made a video
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which looked into the ins and outs of
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japan's minor point initiative
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through which my number card holders can
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get cash back on purchases made
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with cashless payment services courtesy
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of having a my number card
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it's a great video the links up here
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somewhere on the screen
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check it out well the benefits
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of holding a my number card are set to
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be expanded even further according to
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authorities
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as applications are now underway to
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register your mind number card
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for use in place of your health
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insurance card
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of course it's often an issue among new
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foreigners in japan
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as to whether or not you should actually
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have health insurance in the first place
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well you should and it should be one of
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the state-run options
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but we don't want to get bogged down in
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that here let's just for now
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assume that you've got the insurance and
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that you have a card
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something like this from now then you
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can apply
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to have your insurance card essentially
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linked to your my number card
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such that you don't have to carry two
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cards around with you
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and then from march 2021 you can use
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your my number card
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as your health insurance card at medical
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facilities and pharmacies
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with the scope of this use set to be
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expanded in the future
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now why would you want to do this well
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according to the authorities behind your
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my number card that's the ministry of
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health labor and welfare
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the ministry of internal affairs and
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communications and the cabinet office
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there are four count them four primary
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benefits to doing this
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let's take a look at them all right guys
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before we jump into the rest of this
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video
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future now let's get back into the video
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you can use your my number card as your
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health insurance card
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even when you start work change jobs
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move house
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get married and go through other
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significant life events
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now let's pause here because the
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authorities are making it sound like
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with this new system
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we can avoid having to undergo all the
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paperwork
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processes that often accompany these
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lifestyle changes
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in japan a little further reading though
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reveals that that's not necessarily the
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case
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the bureaucracy still needs to be done
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it's just that you don't have to wait
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for a new or updated insurance card to
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be issued
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if you want to visit a medical facility
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in the meantime
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you can just use your my number card
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under the new system you can view
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medical checkup information
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your medicinal information and medical
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expenses via the minor portal
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so it seems like your medical data from
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health checkups and other hospital
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visits can be stored or accessed via
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your my number card
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such that card holders can review this
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data online
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at the miner portal site that's the
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portal site through which cardholders
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can get
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access to all the benefits of having a
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my number card
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it also means that staff at medical
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facilities can gain access to your
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medical history
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such as it is registered on the card and
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such that they can plan treatment
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and issue prescriptions based on the
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data stored on or accessed
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through your card so it seems this is
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also useful in times of disaster
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such as when requiring medical treatment
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you know in the chaotic aftermath of
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earthquakes or heavy rains and typhoons
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which often hit japan now this access to
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such intimate information
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might cause alarm in some people but
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according to
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authorities this data although recorded
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on the card
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can't be accessed without a patient's
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permission
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which as far as our understanding goes
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can be provided
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electronically at the point of reception
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at the medical facility
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which brings us on to the next benefit
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of registering for this system
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also with this system according to
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authorities it's going to make for
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easier reception at medical facilities
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so with your insurance card registered
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with your my number card
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it's hoped that the reception process at
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clinics and other medical facilities
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will be easier
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for example there'll be less burden on
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patients to explain what past
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issues they have had and hopefully it
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will mean less repetitive form-filling
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now staying on this point just for a
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second because i think it reflects
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the intimate nature of some medical
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facilities in japan based on my own
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personal experience
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over recent months i had to pay
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one or two well regular visits to a
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medical clinic
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that specialized in skin and bone issues
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now it's just a tiny clinic and the
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reception was always packed with
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just packed with people waiting to be
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seen
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and what would happen is as you'd go
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into reception you'd hand over your card
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the nurses would take down some of your
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details and then they'd tell you to go
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and wait
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then whilst they were waiting they'd
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come and approach you in front of all
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these people
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and you'd have to explain to them what
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it is that's wrong with you like what
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physical aim and ailment have you got
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that's bothering you
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and again as i say you have to do this
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in front of everybody in the room
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which is kind of bad enough anyway but
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when you're probably the only foreigner
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in the room
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you know you're drawing plenty of
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attention anyway and now you're having
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to explain to everyone
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the intimate failings of your body parts
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it's quite embarrassing
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with the new system receptions of
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medical facilities and pharmacies will
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come equipped with a card scanner
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that can perform face recognition so it
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can scan your my number card
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on the card reader and receive medical
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treatment and drug prescriptions
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based on past data through reading that
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card
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so according to our understanding of
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this system so far
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with the card reader and face
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recognition patients can perform
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personal identification qualification
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confirmation
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and also acquisition of consent so
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that's confirmation of consent for
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doctors
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to view the drug information or specific
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medical checkup information
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available through the my number card the
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last of the main benefits is that you
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can more easily deduct medical expenses
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for tax returns
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via the minor portal by linking to e-tax
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that's japan's online tax return tax
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payment
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system for a briefer explanation of the
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system and its benefits
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you could watch a handy video made by
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the authorities behind the system
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now the videos in japanese but you
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probably don't need to understand
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japanese
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to understand why it is that they've got
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a young child
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explaining to us the benefits of piling
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more and more of our intimate
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intimate information onto a single bit
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of plastic
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issued by the authorities presumably to
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deflect our attention
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away from the sinister dystopian nature
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of it all
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anyway to be fair the authorities have
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made the application process
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seemingly super easy there's a couple of
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things you need to have ready before you
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go ahead and do that
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first of all you need to have your my
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number card of course
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and your four digit password you also
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need to have your
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smartphone capable of reading the chip
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on your
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my number card or a pc and an ic card
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reader
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you need to have downloaded the miner
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portal application or the miner portal
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software on your pc
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and that's it you're all set
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and ready to get started let's take a
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look at the application process
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so here we are on the minor portal home
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page
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and what we want to be looking at is
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this particular part here which is the
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hawkenshaw no and if you want to
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actually go ahead with the application
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you're going to click
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on this button here we can't actually do
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that at the moment
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if you want more details about this you
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can click on the
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click on that and then on this page here
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it introduces
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a little bit about the application
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process so if we scroll down
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here first of all it tells us about
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making the application with both a
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laptop or pc or on your smartphone
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essentially the first thing that it's
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asking us to do is
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in the case of a pc is to connect the ic
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card reader to your pc
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and then insert your my number card into
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the ic card reader
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and press apply here over on the
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smartphone side of things
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again you're going to use your
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smartphone to read your
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my number card and then again press on
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the apply button down at the bottom
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so next we're being asked to enter our
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four-digit personal identification
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number or password
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which we set when we got our my number
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card at the municipal office in the
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first place
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and then we click next or ok just
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remember that if you enter the password
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three times in a row
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the lock will be activated and then once
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we've entered that number
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essentially we are pretty much done
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we're taken to this
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final screen here where we can check on
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the status
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of our app we'll not check on the status
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of our application
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but we can see that it's been registered
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with the system
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and it's telling us here that we're
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going to have to wait for a little bit
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uh until 2021 that's when the whole sort
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of application
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registration process will be finished
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according to this diagram
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here so the application process is
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really simple you're essentially
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scanning your card
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entering your pin number pressing apply
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and that's it you're pretty much done
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and according to the information so far
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that we've got once you've done that
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there's nothing much that you need to do
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it's just a case of waiting and then
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hopefully by march 2021
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you'll be good to go now the timeline as
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we understand things so far
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goes a little bit like this applications
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as we mentioned are now underway
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via the my number portal from march
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2021 you can start using your my number
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card as an insurance card at some
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medical institutions and pharmacies in
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japan
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again from march 2021 you can also start
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viewing medical information your medical
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information
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via minor portal and from october 2021
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you'll be able to start viewing your
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prescription information and your
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medical bills
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again via the minor portal
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it will also be possible to
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automatically enter medical expenses via
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the minor portal site
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as part of the procedure of deducting
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medical expenses
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in your final tax return for fiscal
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2021.
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according to a q a on the minor portal
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site authorities aim to introduce the
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system
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at almost all medical institutions by
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the end of march
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5 which is 2023 i think
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a list of these institutions you know at
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which you can use the new my number
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system as an insurance card
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will be published by the ministry of
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health labor and welfare
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and also posters will be put up at
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applicable institutions
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now it's also worth noting that there
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will be no
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need to leave your my number but
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according to
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the explanations uh provided with this
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new system so far
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it seems like there'll be no need to
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leave your mind number card
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with staff at the reception of medical
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facilities and pharmacies
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if you're used to visiting medical
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clinics so far in japan you'll know that
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you have to hand over your insurance
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card at reception and then you leave it
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with them you go and wait
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and the staff do well whatever it is
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they've got to do with your insurance
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card
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it seems like under this new system with
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the my number card
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there's no reason for you to actually
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hand over the card
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in the same way that 12 digit my number
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that
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we've all been issued with but probably
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forgotten or never committed to memory
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anyway and probably don't even know
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where it is
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according to the authorities behind this
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new system
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there's no reason for staff at medical
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facilities to be handling this 12-digit
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number anymore whether that's a good
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thing or bad thing i'm not entirely sure
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but
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there it is so what about
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local reaction to the new system well
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we hit up that ever reliable source of
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journalism
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twitter to find out what local people
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have been saying about this system
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of registering your insurance card with
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your my number card
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well as always it's typically quite
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difficult to find any kind of positive
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comments about anything on twitter
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there's always lots of negative stuff on
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there according to one user
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kazusan now this is our translation from
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their japanese into english so forgive
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the
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crude translation if you will but they
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say
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they're doing features about minor
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points in breakfast tv shows a lot
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lately
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telling us we should register for the
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benefits it's convenient
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because now we can use it in place of
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our insurance card
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recently there have been many
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commercials advertising minor point they
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say
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i think they've been trying to promote
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it to deflect from the fact that it
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gathers so much
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personal information
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another japanese twitter user says it's
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fine that you can use your my number
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card as an insurance card or for minor
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points
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but elderly people will never get to
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grips with it
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to be fair i kind of have to agree with
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this user if i think about my mom and
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dad
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trying to uh register or trying to sort
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of combine
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their health insurance card with a minor
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point card and then access the minor
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portal to gain access to all these
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benefits
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there's no way in the world that they
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would be able to do that or even have
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the inclination of wanting to do that
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given that there's so many elderly
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people in japan
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and they account for such a large
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percentage of the people
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making use of medical facilities in this
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country
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it kind of seems hard to believe that
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this new system is going to be popular
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amongst
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those people but well what do i know
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as we said whilst it's difficult to find
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positive tweets about
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well pretty much anything um there is a
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couple of positive tweets about this new
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system
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one user saying it takes only three
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minutes to link my number cards to an
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insurance card
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brilliant easy another user comments
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the trigger for the spread of the my
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number card is to have it replace your
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driver's license
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and health insurance card it's a big
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advantage to be able to combine two
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physical cards into one yep it is
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tough work carrying around cards in your
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wallet isn't it
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on a slightly different issue another
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twitter user raises an interesting point
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here when they say
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what happens if you lose your cards
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they know it's their fault for losing
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their cards but for example they come up
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with this kind of chicken and the egg
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what came first scenario
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you need a my number card to issue the
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insurance card
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but you need an insurance card to get
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the my number card
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which comes first it's there's probably
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some way of resolving that but
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i think the message here is once you put
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all your information
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onto this my number card you better be
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damn sure not to lose it
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otherwise it sounds like it's going to
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be a huge hassle
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[Music]
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okay guys so that's about all we've got
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regarding this topic
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of merging your health insurance card
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with your my number card
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let us know what you think about the new
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system in the comments below this video
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also stick around and check out the
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description below the video
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because in there you'll find all the
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links relevant to this topic
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so stick around check out those links
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for more information
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