Germany
Health care in Germany has multiple sickness funds which are either publicly owned or not-for-profit mutuals. Membership of a sickness fund is compulsory for everyone except certain people earning an income above a certain level who are to opt out of the insurance system altogether. Doctors are usually self-employed, and hospitals may be publicly owned, privately owned or not-for-profit.
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“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
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