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Re:German credit agency earns millions through unlawful cust... by generic92034 on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:10AM (#39396478)
> And the person responsible for the legislature that caused this change is the current health minister.

Could you please explain that a bit more?

Re:German credit agency earns millions through unlawful cust... by ffsm8 on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:15AM (#39397277)
He revamped pretty much evey monetary incentive a few years ago, which directly caused the "gold rush" privatization of hospitals etc, making a lot of treatments uneconomical. There has been a lot of coverage about it over the years - both by official channels and independent YouTubers and journalists, I'm not going to do it justice by summarizing it in a comment here.

A somewhat recent German video (2yrs old) is "Pflege katastrophe - exposed". But ARTE , DW and ZDF all have reported on it at this point

The controversy about diabetis patients getting amputations over simple treatments is a pretty well known symptom of this revamp, as operations get a very high payout