Obligatory this answer is from an American here. Government issued ID cards have photo, name, and date of birth, and are only issued with certified residency. Health cards, despite also being government issued, usually don’t have all the security features that are present on other government issued ID (because its usage in the Health offices provide different checks against fraud and counterfeit.)
For health information security reasons, the contents of the card itself, like the number, are under various laws and regulations. You’ve heard of HIPPA, right? It’s illegal to keep records on the contents of the card unless you’re actually in health care, etc and subject to all the rules that go with it.
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