It's Everywhere - Not only

It's Everywhere - Not only is the US not the only country with a health insurance problem - but sometimes the countries that are held up as the best examples are the ones with the most intractable problems, as we see in this Frankfurter Allgemeine article.

“The current system cannot survive the demographic changes ahead of it,“ said Lauterbach, who heads the Institute of Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology of the University of Cologne and is a member of the Rürup Commission, a body of experts and representatives of various social and professional groups appointed by the German government to develop proposals for reforming the health, social benefits and pension programs.

And no, bussing people to Denmark isn't the answer.

The scary part? Germany's health care system is one of the more conservative in Europe, compared with, say, Sweden or the Netherlands.

Posted by Mitch at July 28, 2003 12:46 AM