I was reading through health-related news this morning in Germany, and came to one short piece by Focus magazine.
Doctors and hospitals are getting to a point of frustration with German consumers coming to the emergency room, with non-emergency situations. The way it works here....you show up....present your health card, and the charge goes to the insurance company.
What is suggested here in the article, which had an interview session with the German Chairman of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV)....Andreas Gassen....is this idea of a fee when you appear (coming out of your pocket, not the pocket of the insurance company).
The amount? Unknown. He doesn't really want to suggest how much.
The problem I see is that you might go and suggest forty Euro (roughly $50), and folks would show up and say that they don't have it, and expect you to still provide service (which they'd have to).
Some folks won't care, and just pay the fee. I have my doubts that a fee would really change much of anything.
The odds of this fee occurring? There would have to be some study done to show cause and effect, and to suggest a basic level of cost. So far, this is just simply talk.
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