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Level Three users received priority appointments, specialist referrals, experimental treatments, faster donor matching.
Level Two users received standard care.
Level One users received emergency rooms, free clinics, and whatever human mercy survived outside the network.
Maya changed the screen again. Banking access.
Employment clearance. Housing approval.
Child custody decisions.
Education records.
Every chart told the same story in a different costume.
The safest people looked the most honest.
The most vulnerable looked like risks.
Henry heard Vincent’s voice again.
When you make truth a price of admission, the safest people will always look the most honest.
Maya folded her arms.
“You didn’t create a truth system,” she said. “You created a sorting machine.”
Henry wanted to argue. He had arguments. Good ones.
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