tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16405727.post6223593214093561869..comments2023-11-25T15:00:29.939+01:00Comments on Yum Yum Café: German Medical System 101lilaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17834341657842966966noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16405727.post-86360298728063939712010-08-21T12:16:10.425+02:002010-08-21T12:16:10.425+02:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.juliarobertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062321683727387043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16405727.post-69185307727284322842010-08-19T11:43:01.176+02:002010-08-19T11:43:01.176+02:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.sandrabullockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13237978388654003515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16405727.post-34197833752471975692010-08-17T12:22:53.667+02:002010-08-17T12:22:53.667+02:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16405727.post-68198823858503867232009-10-09T16:24:45.525+02:002009-10-09T16:24:45.525+02:00A very informative article on the german medical s...A very informative article on the german medical system. It's not perfect, but what is these days. The US health system is the most expensive system in the world, yet ranks poorly in terms of universal health care. It is well overdue for reform.J.Thttp://www.system-101.com/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16405727.post-6720168798258939662009-09-01T23:18:25.251+02:002009-09-01T23:18:25.251+02:00Nobody has noted that there is a multi-tier system...Nobody has noted that there is a multi-tier system in effect in Germany. A laborer and a civil servant have far different coverage. Those in certain income levels or those with certain professions can opt out of the State system. Those eligible to buy private insurance get private rooms in hospitals and better quality access to doctors. In other words, Germany is not a classless society in terms of health care. My wife did three days in a German hospital as a result of an auto accident in Poland. While the bill was a fraction of what it would be in the USA, she was on an 8 person ward and I found myself sorting out a doctor and a nurse over using sterile instruments! When I was told that German nurses don't <br />question doctors, I remarked that I thought we got that "...just following orders...." shit taken care of in Nuremburg in 1948! I like the insurance I have. My fear is of Obama dragging everyone down into a common trough of medical swill. This of course would not effect Obama and other members of the Washington Nomenklatura.phxguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120358231554023246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16405727.post-47910145731872567162009-08-22T11:09:58.503+02:002009-08-22T11:09:58.503+02:00I am a German living in the UK; I've come to y...I am a German living in the UK; I've come to you via Ronni Bennett's Time Goes By where I left a contribution for the debate on Healthcare Reform in the US. There is this vilification of the UK's National Health Service by the antis in the US which I simply could not leave to go unanswered.<br />I am glad to have found you; although I do watch German TV occasionally (my favourite programme is WESTART on a Sunday morning) I know little of what is talked about in the coffee houses. Perhaps you will enlighten me.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16405727.post-16051033924105014972009-08-20T07:31:51.481+02:002009-08-20T07:31:51.481+02:00For those of us who arrived in Germany around the ...For those of us who arrived in Germany around the age of 40, and whose salary is high enough they would otherwise qualify, private medical insurance is not an option. Why? Because if you're older, they slot you in to an unreasonably high monthly payment, and it rises from there. In that sense, statutory (gesetzlich) is better. I'm just waiting, though, for them to raise the bar and see my monthly bill rise to around 500 euro from its current 265. It's going to happen sooner or later.<br /><br />As for the dental, huge caveat. Private insurance schemes, the deluxe ones, do pay your dental - 100%. <br /><br />For the rest of us on gesetzlich, dental coverage is a joke unless you want to pay a whack every month for supplementary insurance. Even kids aren't covered for all costs, as recent bills we've received show.ian in hamburghttp://lettershometoyou.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com