Archive 31. January 2003

Blix contradicts Bush

Well. Will Bush now also dismiss Blix as "old Europe" (after all, Blix is Swedish)?

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Germans serve as guinea pigs

It is indeed remarkable that our pharmaceutical industry constantly complains about how cumbersome it is to get new methods and medications approved in Germany, when apparently it's much easier for foreign companies here. And it's quite outrageous, the whole thing.

But it's been a long time since it was about the patient in such matters, as shown by the increasingly exposed fraud schemes in recent times (Chinese dentures, inferior heart valves, ...)

So who ultimately pays the damage? We do. And then we're told that the healthcare system is unprofitable and we have to accept further service cuts while simultaneous premium increases.

I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft.