Friday, November 21, 2025

21 Nov 2025: Germany: 5 Things

 1. Flu chatter today....hyped-up....bad-ass flu coming to Germany over next 3 months.

2. Focus piece....one in five German adults have a limited reading problem. Basically suggesting 2nd/3rd grade level status.

3.  Germany has the same issue as the US....healthcare cost escalation.

This week....the Bundestag was supposed to pass a cost-cutting package aimed at keeping health insurance contributions stable for 2026....but this got halted today.

Right now...it's unknown how individual health insurance cost will go.

 Added to this...the 16 states are resisting proposed savings of €1.8 billion for hospitals, which are intended to make up the majority of the total €2 billion savings package. 

4.  Some German grounds-keeper....let loose his robo-mower, and it ran for a entire weekend.....major disaster found on Monday morning....converted the field to mud.

5. After that bed-bug situation in Istanbul.....4 German-Turks dead....there's a investigation going on, and possibility of other deaths from the last year or two.

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