Biff_Poindexter
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If nearly everyone has private insurance how is it they are considered a socialized health country??Without doubts Germany has the best health health system in the world.
The coronavirus crisis has hit Germany with full force. Infections are increasing rapidly, schools, factories and bars have closed across the country, and government measures to slow the outbreak are becoming more draconian by the day. In one crucial way, however, the country is proving remarkably resilient: relative to known infections, the number of deaths has so far been minuscule. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, there were 13,979 coronavirus infections in Germany on Thursday afternoon, more than in any other country except China, Italy, Iran and Spain.
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At the same time, Germany had only registered 42 deaths. Neighbouring France, by contrast, reported 9,058 infections and 243 deaths. Spain had 17,395 infections and 803 deaths. The US, the UK, Italy and even South Korea all show case fatality rates significantly higher than Germany.
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And Germany has one of the highest level of private insurance on top of their overly expensive government run health care system.
Anyone who supports single-payer socialized health care, you can't look to Germany as a model, since nearly everyone has private insurance, and there are dozens of for-profit private capitalist hospitals.
In fact, I would wager that is exactly why the death rate is lower in Germany.
What Germany has is what you folks called Democrats evil for wanting to implement -- the public option.....Germans have the option to have "government subsidized" insurance or "private" insurance....but all Germans are still going to the same hospitals.....Socialized medicine is when the hospitals, doctors, nurses are all state employees -- and no one is calling for that.....no one.....