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- From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
- Subject: German Health Insurance "System" in 1/23 NYT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.193611.21776@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:36:11 GMT
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- This Saturday's New York Times has a front page article on Germany's
- health insurance system, consisting of 1,147 private and quasi-public
- "sickness funds". [The funds themselves (from what my girlfriend's
- uncle, a doctor in Saarbrucken, Palatine) are interconnected into one
- giant risk pool like the Canadian and French public health insurance,
- thus functionally equivalent: real insurance paying private doctors,
- and public and private hospitals.] There seems to be more regulation
- by the state compared to the Canadian/French systems, though, from the
- Times's description ...
-
- Interestingly, the NYT points out that the original "sickness funds"
- concept was started by Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck about 110
- years ago as part of a policy to blow steam out of a growing Socialist
- movement.
-
- gld
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