Health Quotes by Karl Lauterbach

14 Health quotes by Karl Lauterbach

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Karl Lauterbach provides fourteen succinct insights that touch on public health, policy, and personal habits. Though the collection is short, it delivers a clear sense of his priorities and the issues he deems most pressing.

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I think from an economics point of view, it is important that the money that is spent for health care is well…

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I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness…

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In Germany there is ranking for contribution rate, so the cheaper sickness funds with good quality can both advertise their better quality…

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Health insurance in Germany continues with no change if you lose a job. We do know very well that people who become…

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In the '50s and in the '60s, the private insurance system originally was a benefit for the bureaucrats in Germany. And this…

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The U.S. has a system that does have a poor cost-benefit ratio. I mean, 40 million people lack insurance; another 30 million…

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The German health care system is unique in its attempt to combine competition among sickness funds on the one hand and a…

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The same drugs are way cheaper in Germany than in America because, obviously, if all sickness funds negotiate with the drug companies…

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The quality of health care in Germany is not as good as people sometimes believe it to be. We have problems with…

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I think, unfortunately, many opinion leaders in Germany - including government officials, politicians, social service bureaucrats and so forth - they are…

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I think the Scandinavian health systems are better when it comes to preventative care than the German system, because in the Scandinavian…

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The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system,…

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In comparison to the U.S. health care system, the German system is clearly better, because the German health care system works for…

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In Germany it's impossible to go bankrupt for medical bills, because even if you are bankrupt, ... the social solidarity system pays…

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The same drugs are way cheaper in Germany than in America because, obviously, if all sickness funds negotiate with the drug companies for a…

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I think, unfortunately, many opinion leaders in Germany - including government officials, politicians, social service bureaucrats and so forth - they are in the…

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Health insurance in Germany continues with no change if you lose a job. We do know very well that people who become unemployed are…

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