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Germany has an aging population. It has put strain on the German healthcare system. The public health insurance system is affected the most. Private health insurance companies save part of the insurance premiums and use this saving to compensate for the increased medical costs in the future.
Health care reform measures in Germany are designated by the legislature for the organization of the health care system. The main aim of such reforms is to curb the increase of costs in statutory health insurance (for example, by stabilizing the contribution rate and, thus, non-wage labor costs by reducing benefits, increasing co-payments or by changing the remuneration of service providers). [1]
Germany's economy would have grown by 0.5% instead of contracting last year ... Germany's largest health insurance fund, ... “It suggests that the German social system is being exploited to some ...
The health economics of Germany sector was about US$368.78 billion (€287.3 billion) in 2010, equivalent to 11.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year and about US$4,505 (€3,510) per capita. [15] According to the World Health Organization, Germany's health care system was 77% government-funded and 23% privately funded as of 2004 ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's public health insurance scheme can cover certain patients with a risk of heart disease or strokes to take the weight-loss Wegovy drug, a big boost for Novo Nordisk's ...
The Federal Ministry of Health is responsible for: maintaining the effectiveness and efficiency of the statutory health insurance and long-term care insurance systems; maintaining and enhancing the quality of the health care system; strengthening the interests of patients; maintaining economic viability and stabilization of contribution levels
Germany’s economy shrank last year for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is set to contract again this year, according to the latest forecasts from the European Union ...
Otto von Bismarck. The Bismarck model (also referred as "Social Health Insurance Model") is a health care system in which people pay a fee to a fund that in turn pays health care activities, that can be provided by State-owned institutions, other Government body-owned institutions, or a private institution. [1]