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“Health Care Systems - Four Basic Models.” Health Care Systems - Four Basic Models | Physicians for a National Health Program, www.pnhp.org/single_payer_resources/health_care_systems_four_basic_models.php.

“International Health Care System Profiles.” Germany : International Health Care System Profiles, international.commonwealthfund.org/countries/germany/.

Ita. “Healthcare Resource Guide: Germany.” Export.gov - Home, 2016.export.gov/industry/health/healthcareresourceguide/eg_main_092308.asp.

“Map of Germany.” Railpass, www.railpass.com/plan-your-trip/maps/germany.

PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/models.html.

thehealthcaretriage. “Healthcare in Germany.” YouTube, YouTube, 28 July 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdarqEbDeV0.

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(Railpass, n.d.)

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Plan your trip in Germany with a travel map from RailPass.com. Use the map to locate major cities and popular regions in Germany. Then, explore by train.

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Social or Public Health Care (for everyone) OR Private Health Care (you can pay for it and get private insurance (International Health Care Systems Profile, n.d.)

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International Health Care System Profiles - Germany 

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International Health Care System Profiles - Germany 

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(Blümel & Busse, n.d.)

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Germany : International Health Care System Profiles

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The German health care system is notable for two essential characteristics: 1) the sharing of decision-making powers between states, federal government, and self-regulated organizations of payers and providers; and 2) the separation of SHI (including the social LTCI) and PHI (including the private LTCI).

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(PBS, n.d.)

THE BISMARCK MODEL

Named for the Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who invented the welfare state as part of the unification of Germany in the 19th century. Despite its European heritage, this system of providing health care would look fairly familiar to Americans. It uses an insurance system -- the insurers are called "sickness funds" -- usually financed jointly by employers and employees through payroll deduction.

Unlike the U.S. insurance industry, though, Bismarck-type health insurance plans have to cover everybody, and they don't make a profit. Doctors and hospitals tend to be private in Bismarck countries; Japan has more private hospitals than the U.S. Although this is a multi-payer model -- Germany has about 240 different funds -- tight regulation gives government much of the cost-control clout that the single-payer Beveridge Model provides.

The Bismarck model is found in Germany, of course, and France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, and, to a degree, in Latin America.

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Five Countries - Health Care Systems -- The Four Basic Models | Sick Around The World | FRONTLINE | PBS

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Only the developed, industrialized countries -- perhaps 40 of the world's 200 countries -- have established health care systems. Most of the nations on the planet are too poor and too disorganized to provide any kind of mass medical care. The basic rule in such countries is that the rich get medical care; the poor stay sick or die.

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How does Germany differ?

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thehealthcaretriage. “Healthcare in Germany.” (YouTube, YouTube, 28 July 2014)

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The last international health care system we covered - Singapore - got a great response from all of you. This week. We head back to Europe. Specifically, we're going to Germany. Their universal health care system is based on the principles of Bismark, which say that the state should provide only for those unable to provide for themselves.

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“Healthcare Resource Guide: Germany.” (Export.gov, n.d.)

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Outline of Germany's Health Care System 

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Outline of Germany's Health Care System 