Ritter said these concerns are due to health care facilities having hit capacity. He said Sanford has worked to address capacity issues by opening 16 clinics in Bismarck-Mandan. The hospital is ...

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 ...

He wanted blue-collar workers to remain healthy and productive by providing access to health-care services. The “Bismarck” model has since permeated throughout Europe, funding health-care ...

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 ...

Raumi Kudrna believes that what makes good nurses great is their "why." The vice president of patient care services for CHI St. Alexius Health invited two of the honorees at the Tribune's ...

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 ...

To the Editor: So let me see if I have this right: Because a German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, came up with an inefficient way to provide universal health care almost 140 years ago ...

But rather than looking north for inspiration, American health care reformers would ... in the United States, this model, pioneered by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1883, was the first social ...

France’s health care system has been called “Bismarckian”, as has similarities to the one established in 1880 by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck ... aspects of the model designed ...

European health care,” Mr McConnell ... some variety of this model ever since it invented public health insurance, 134 years ago, during the administration of Otto von Bismarck.

(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 ...

(It’s still known as the “Bismarck model” because of his legacy ... Commonwealth Fund And Germany manages to put its health-care dollars to relatively good use: For each $100 it spends ...