{"id":14298,"date":"2019-10-18T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14298"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:36:47","slug":"in-hamburg-gesundheit-means-more-than-a-wish-for-good-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14298","title":{"rendered":"In Hamburg, \u2018Gesundheit\u2019 Means More Than A Wish For Good Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>HAMBURG, Germany \u2014 Researchers around the world hail Germany for its robust health care system: universal coverage, plentiful primary care, low drug prices and minimal out-of-pocket costs for residents.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in the U.S., the prospect of a large medical bill doesn\u2019t stand in the way of anyone\u2019s treatment. \u201cMoney is a problem in [their lives], but not with us,\u201d said Merangis Qadiri, a health counselor at a clinic in one of Hamburg\u2019s poorest neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>But it turns out that tending to the health needs of low-income patients still presents universal challenges.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/hamburg-germany-health-care-access-disparities-low-income-patients\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News) HAMBURG, Germany \u2014 Researchers around the world hail Germany for its robust health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14299,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions\/14299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}