"Health Minister Roesler shows courage, taking on the powerful pharmaceutical companies," wrote the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper. However, the paper went on to ask whether forced discounts, price limits and forced negotiations between health insurance companies and the pill pushers will bring about the desired results. "The German health-care system is mainly characterized by the tenacity of all involved, including its patients."
In Wales:
"The German health-care system is mainly characterized by the tenacity of all involved, including its patients."
Translation: people don't like cuts in their healthcare.
The Berliner Morgenpost belongs to the notoriously (and sometimes infamously) right-wing Axel Springer newspaper group. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
