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The Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman once wrote: “National health insurance is an... example of misleading labeling. In such a system, there would be no connection between what you would pay and the actuarial value of what you would be entitled to receive, as there is in private insurance. In addition it is not directed at insuring ‘national health’ — a meaningless phrase — but at providing medical services to the residents of the country. What its proponents are in fact proposing is a system of socialized medicine” ([2], p. 104). Although Milton Friedman did not name the German health care system, his statement is an excellent short description of the German statutory health insurance.
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von der Schulenburg, JM.G. (1988). The Health Care System of the Federal Republic of Germany: Moral Issues and Public Policy. In: Sass, HM., Massey, R.U. (eds) Health Care Systems. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7807-3_4
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