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Started by Gary L Dare
Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:36
German Health Insurance "System" in 1/23 NYT
Author: Gary L Dare
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:36
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:36
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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 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Je me souviens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gary L. Dare > gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.EDU Carnaval de Quebec (City) > gld@cunixc.BITNET February 4 - 14
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