The Bismarck model originated in the 1880s in Germany, when the conservative statesman Otto von Bismarck envisioned a system where people crowdfund for their health care expenses and receive ...

A national financial crisis could lead to less health care funding. Under this model, called the Bismarck model due to its origins, health insurance is generally available from private companies ...

Does the German model work well enough for us to consider it? Germans report far greater satisfaction with their health-care system than we do, according to Lou Harris Polls. And though Germans ...

Five capitalist democracies around the world - Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Germany - all have health care systems that provide health care for everyone. They have higher life ...

Germany's health-care scheme, like the rest of its welfare system, dates back to the Iron Chancellor. Bismarck's original idea was to provide a safety net for the poorest of the poor. Now ...

(Great Britain, for example, went in a different direction; its health care laws ... kept the model, despite the fact that it was imposed under Nazi occupation. All told, Bismarck’s system ...

Five capitalist democracies around the world - Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Germany - all have health care systems that provide health care for everyone. They have higher life ...