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  • Title: [Managed care--a possibility for German Health Insurance?].
    Author: Gaertner T, von Mittelstaedt G, Jelastopulu E, Schwoerer P, Niehoff JU, Voltz G, Krell H, Finger C, Knigge W, Sambale M, Strippel H.
    Journal: Gesundheitswesen; 1999; 61(8-9):374-9. PubMed ID: 10535216.
    Abstract:
    Health services systems in nearly all developed countries face similar problems. This fact raises the question whether concepts used in different countries can be changed without affecting the historically grown foundations of national health services as have been accepted by majority. A group of experts of the German Medical Services of the Statutory Health Insurance were asked to analyse whether the managed care approach could play a substantial role in reforming the German "Bismarck model", given that the advisory responsibility of the social medical service for the sick funds is respected in such a consideration and that basic essentials of the system are maintained. The group concludes, in brief, that managed care and the "German model" are contradictory in respect of preconditions, aims and assumed results. Furthermore, the experts share the view that the "German model" incorporates sufficient to cope with its problems without changing the nature of health services, based on principles of solidarity in Germany. The system needs structural reforms rather than changes in monetary mechanisms.
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