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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 credit rating by credit rating agencies Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch Ratings stands at the highest possible rating AAA with a stable outlook in 2016. [140] Germany's "debt clock" (Schuldenuhr) reversed for the first time in 20 years in January 2018. It is now currently increasing at 10,424.00 per second (October 2020).
While it has largely avoided a technical recession, Germany’s economy contracted by 0.3% in 2023 and is set for a 0.2% decline this year. "Sick Man of Europe " Employees took 15 days of sick ...
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 ...
Germany’s economy shrank last year for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, official data showed Monday, increasing the risk of an economic contraction in the wider euro area.
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 ...
Germany had the twenty-fourth highest level of expected human capital with 25 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years. [1] The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [2] finds that Germany is achieving 90.0% of what should be possible for the right to health, based on their level of income. [3]