To most residents and mercenaries alike, the MercTown State Hospital is the crowning achievement of the new administration. It is a sprawling, ultra-modem, five-story building of reinforced Mega-Damage materials. Without a doubt it is one of the best medical facilities in all of North America. When one takes into consideration the inclusion of advanced Naruni technology combined with state of the art human medical tech, along with psychic and magical means of healing, it can be argued that the MercTown State Hospital is superior even to facilities in Chi-Town. No expense was spared in the construction of the building, staffing and equipment - Wilk's monitors, laser, optics and diagnostic tools; Northern Gun cybernetic implants and bionics, Juicer augmentation, Crazy enhancements, doctors who specialize in traditional and holistic medicine to combat surgery and medicine, cybernetics, psychic healing and magical cures, exorcism, herbs, and applications brought from all comers of the continent (and a few from England, Germany and Atlantis). There are even two Lynn-Srial, and three Herbologists on staff.
Health care for citizens of MercTown is completely free; medical costs are absorbed by the hospital and the government. Most of its funding is actually provided by mercenaries, adventurers, and other non-residents who come to the hospital for its superior treatment, technology and specialty in combat injuries and cybernetics Bio-Systems and conventional cybernetics and combat bionics). All types of medicinal and cosmetic cybernetics are available at the clinics attached to the hospital compound, as are combat bionics, partial and full cyborg conversion, M.O.M. enhancements (Crazies brain implants), and Juicer augmentation; all at fair market prices. So far, its medical services to mercenaries and adventurers have surpassed the needs of residents and rumor has it that the hospital has a one billion credit operating surplus.
Attached to the main hospital, but run separately, are the MercTown State Clinics of Enhancement . A thoroughly modem network of facilities with state-of-the-art medical equipment exclusively devoted to human augmentation. The cybernetics and bionics branches are the largest install, repair, upgrade, partial augmentation, full conversion), but the augmentation procedures of JAPE/Juicer augmentation arid M.O.M./Crazies brain implants are also in high demand, it{ part, due to the quality of the service and the, relative, safety of the operation. The clinics are strictly for-profit operations. The clinics' track record is impressive, with a 98.7% success ratio, much higher than any street side Body-Chop-Shop operation (any Black Market augmentation clinic that has a 70% or higher success rate is considered top notch). Safety does not come without a cost, however, and the services of the clinic are 10-30% higher than average which is actually very fair and surprisingly low, all things considered. Thousands of people with dreams of becoming superhuman Juicers, Crazies, Headhunters and cyborgs parade through the clinics' doors each year willing to spend the extra few thousand credits rather than risk death at the hands of some butcher at a Chop-Shop. Furthermore, MercTown is one of the few places to offer the Hyperion, Titan, Phaeton and Delphi Juicer variant procedures, as well as the traditional Juicer (JAPE) enhancement (and they are in negotiations with Kingsdale for the Mega-Juicer process). Likewise, it is one of the few locations one can get competent M.O.M./Crazy enhancement with any genuine assurance of walking away without immediate brain damage.
Free medical care is a luxury afforded only to actual citizens of MercTown. Outsiders and visitors are not given medical treatment unless they pay for it. At the State Hospital nothing is cheap, someone has to foot the bill for all the shiny equipment and expert staff. Even for something as simple as a broken leg the cost of treatment can be in the thousands of credits. For major surgery it rises to the tens of thousands, but usually within the range of most successful mercenaries. Note: Numerous private clinics, body-fixers, Body-Chop-Shops, and healers offer the same services for a third of the cost, but the quality of care and rate of success without serious complications (i.e., survival) is much lower - buyer beware.
