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| SimHealth: The National Health Care Simulation | |
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| Developer(s) | Thinking Tools |
| Publisher(s) | Maxis |
| Director(s) | John Hiles |
| Producer(s) | Mike Perry |
| Designer(s) | Greg Wolfson John Hiles |
| Programmer(s) | Richard Rosenbaum |
| Artist(s) | Jenny Martin |
| Composer(s) | Brian Conrad Randy Jones Don Walters |
| Series | Sim |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
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| Genre(s) | Management simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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.[citation needed]