Germany's Health Care System

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This paper examines the health care system of Germany from the time of the reunification of East and West Germany to the present. It looks at the admirable services, quality, and extensive coverage Germany has managed to provide its citizens under a socialized form of health care, while avoiding all the pitfalls of socialized medicine. The paper also examines some of the pressures the system is now facing and the reasons for this pressure and looks at the debate regarding how much coverage Germany should be obligated to provide its citizens.

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"In 1949, when the occupying armies of the Allies left the region that had been the German nation, two states were created, Communist-bloc East Germany, and a western-friendly democracy, West Germany. In 1961, the East Germany government erected a wall in Berlin to keep East Germans from becoming West Germans. The wall, a hated symbol but also a real wedge into German culture and society, stood until 1989. Suddenly, in the spring and summer of that year, there was an exodus of East German citizens through embassies in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. In early October, there were unheard-of public demonstrations against the East German government in Berlin and Leipzig."

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