State medicine

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Public medicine is a political term in the discussion about the future of the health system . In the name of the Hamburg Academy for State Medicine , State Medicine stood for public medical officers . In the public perception, a public health system (such as in the UK ) is seen as inefficient and underperforming compared to a competitive health system. The buzzword state medicine takes up this assessment. By designating the health policy concepts other than state medicine or more often “way into state medicine”, it should be criticized that these concepts

  • the competition reduce healthcare or abolish,
  • ensure that the state has too much influence in the health care system,
  • introduce uniform services for everyone,
  • lower the level of health care or
  • a rationing make medical services necessary.

As is usual with political catchphrases of this kind, these reflect reality in a distorted manner and are not used by anyone to describe their own health policy. The opposite is the so-called profit medicine resp. the commercialized medicine. The term is used in practice to criticize the following projects:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Hans Harmsen the euthanasia pioneer, head of the Hygiene Institute Hamburg from 1946 to 1969, dean of the Academy for State Medicine, Hamburg and chairwoman of pro familia [1]
  2. ↑ BWL-Bote, Erfurt
  3. ↑ z. B. Kuno Winn , chairman of the Hartmannbund in a press release on August 29, 2006 [2]
  4. ↑ z. B. Ulrich Machold, in the Welt am Sonntag of August 27, 2006 "Forward to State Medicine" [3]
  5. ↑ z. B. Stefan Windau , Vice President of the Saxon Medical Association in Deutsches Ärzteblatt August 25, 2006 [4]
  6. ↑ z. B. Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe , Chairman of the German Medical Association and Andreas Köhler , National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in a press release on August 24, 2006 [5]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesaerztekammer.de  
  7. ↑ Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe Chairman of the German Medical Association : "Schmidt sets the course for state medicine" - ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bdi.de
  8. ↑ "Berlin-Essen Resolution" (PDF; 59 kB)