Universal free healthcare had long been implemented in many Western countries.
Of course, this so-called implementation still fell far short of the ideal of universal free healthcare, even setting aside the enormous insurance premiums people had to pay.
The sheer inefficiency of that supposedly free medical care was enough to drive anyone to despair.
As for the free healthcare the Xia Kingdom intended to establish, aside from the medical breakthroughs brought about by the Yellow Dragon Kingdom, the biggest factor was the artificial intelligence made possible by the Spirit-Control Formation.
Artificial intelligence would completely replace nurses and general physicians.
The true medical experts would only see patients with serious conditions. Beyond technological treatments, a group of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners led by Xu Qinian, Divine Doctor Xu, had also become another option for the people of the Xia Kingdom.
By comparison, Xu Qinian's treatments were somewhat better than the technological methods.
The only problem was that too few people knew how to use them. Even though his reputation had spread and his lifespan had increased considerably, he had still trained only a handful of disciples.
As Zhang Hongxing headed home carrying his gifts, construction began simultaneously on one hundred enormous smart hospitals offering free treatment to everyone across the country.
They had all kinds of medicinal herbs from the vast Classic of Mountains and Seas World to use as raw materials.
With ever more artificial intelligence systems and robots taking over human work, getting construction underway on one hundred hospitals at once was hardly difficult.
When news broke that these one hundred free hospitals were being built, the first people to lash out and mock the project were not foreigners.
They were the private hospitals within the Xia Kingdom.
Given how convenient transportation in the Xia Kingdom had become, it