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Originally Posted by StefanG
1883 - that's the year of the first mandatory health insurance in Germany.
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Just read all about it:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447688/
It's the exact opposite of what ObamaCare's "one size fits all" centralized govt. disaster.
The Germans did it right after a lot of political fighting.
They did NOT want to have the centralized govt. running their lives and instead made it regional.
Which is what Trump talked about during the campaign...more power to the states.
"Regional elites felt threatened by what they saw as an overwhelming authoritarian state, particularly Bismarck?s original plan to control health insurance from a central imperial office. The iron chancellor, known for his militarism, use of coercive powers, and exercise of repressive measures, lost out to these regional forces when national health insurance was created in 1883. Sickness funds, although mandated nationally, were organized on a regional basis."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447688/
It took the Germans a lot of infighting and political upheavals...but they finally got it right and it's worked ever since.
Maybe that's the road we are on. ObamaCare was just the first mistake on our path.
German Healthcare didn't just spring up over night. It took years of mistakes and arguing to get it right.