Tag: Health insurance and care
Care: why children usually do not have to pay for their parents – economy
Many of the children of parents in need of care are afraid of the social welfare office: in the past few weeks, places in nursing homes have become extremely expensive,…
When is it worth taking out insurance for dogs and cats – Economy
In the early years of her life, the bitch Funny went through just about every illness and accident that you can imagine. Contact with a poisoned rat resulted in poisoning…
The futile struggle for more humane care for the elderly – economy
Ute Tobias founded a care cooperative in Emden. The award-winning initiative could help alleviate the nursing shortage if it weren’t for the financial problems and political quarrels. Ute Tobias remembers…
Bavaria wants to start digital care exchange – Bavaria
The Free State of Bavaria wants to facilitate the search for care places and other care offers in the future with the help of a digital care exchange. “A good…
Daily sickness benefit: Why some insured people get less money – Economy
A protracted corona disease in the spring, then a complicated fracture a few months – such a medical history is really not to be desired by anyone. At least the…
Leave for caregivers – economy
For many of the more than 3.2 million women and men who look after a sick family member at home every day, vacation has become a foreign word. Some have…
Private health insurance: Trouble with the electronic patient file
Four large private health insurers and an IT company fail with the “My Health” portal. It should advance digitization. source site
Strike of the nursing staff in NRW: why this can be a turning point – opinion
The employees are traditionally poorly organized, which is why they find it difficult to enforce legitimate demands themselves. The strikes at the university clinics in North Rhine-Westphalia show that resistance…
NRW: Verdi agrees with university clinic operators – politics
The longest labor dispute in North Rhine-Westphalia’s health care system is over. On Tuesday, the Verdi collective bargaining committee accepted a key issue paper that had been negotiated with the…
Compulsory social time: Opportunity for the individual and society – culture
Of Philip Boverman Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is concerned about social cohesion. He also has an idea that could help: having to “dedicate a certain amount of time to the…