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Interesting case: Poland has an address register that is slowly being deprecated -- it is no longer necessary to ever update it and in increasingly fewer situat
by robryk 10y ago
Interesting case: Poland has an address register that is slowly being deprecated -- it is no longer necessary to ever update it and in increasingly fewer situations a record from that registry is required (and it would be very unpopular if people actually had to report to the government that they've moved).
I wonder what are trends related to such registers in other countries.
- antirez 10y agoIt is unlikely that it gets deprecated here. It's used for too many things. For instance one part of the free healthcare you get is a local doctor usually a few blocks from where you live where you can go for basic needs. This is also assigned based on your current address.
- robryk 10y agoThis also used to be the case in Poland. Now you can choose the GP you go to and change that decision IIRC twice a year. Choosing a doctor that's far away makes no sense, so there's no or little reason to restrict that choice to close doctors.
- antirez 10y agoMakes sense indeed. GP means generic physician? Thanks.
- maxerickson 10y agoGeneral practitioner. Same difference though.
- mantas 10y agoLithuanian there. I think we inherited a very similar system from soviet times. Various things are slowly decoupled off the address registry. Major thing left is voting in election. Someone is eligible to vote for municipality. As in, for mayor of that municipality or it's parliament member. There're also optional municipality services that run off the same registry. For example, your kids may be rejected from municipality-sponsored kindergarten if you're not registered in the same municipality. This is to ensure another municipality is not receiving your taxes while you leech off neighbouring one. I guess that will get centralised sooner or later.