Alex’s Reviews > Der Zweiklassenstaat > Status Update

I have to correct myself on the sources, he usually cites several per footnote.

Still, crap book. He comes after his teacher, and that's not a compliment.

He thinks the privatization of health insurance is no solution, because then costs would rise. By what logic? Private companies are almost always more efficient than the public sector, and private insurance works well in about every other sector, so why not health?

Good info on the importance of publicizing the rate of successful operations for both hospitals and doctors.

Why does he compare the American medical system favorably to the German one after he bashed in the first pages?

Also, interesting how he describes the German hospital system as wasteful, saying other countries do with a third our hospital beds and a hospitalization durations half as long.

I'd rate the part about our medical system with three and a half stars. I wouldn't know how to begin to explain our system to an American, honestly.

Riddle me this: How can a rich person suffering from cancer be privileged because he belongs to a group with a higher life expectancy? That sounds like conflating the individual and the group he belongs to.

At least some of the info on our two-class-medical systemi is interesting.

Contrary to Lauterbach, I don't see the inheritance of wealth as unjust. This book has "envy" written all over it, but at the same time, he speaks of badly integrated foreigners and assorted "victims" of the system with thinly veiled disgust.