Abstract
Providing health care in any country reflects the country's legal system and financial resources. The entire medical system in Germany is in a constant change from a cost-unaware social affair institution to an economic market-based health care supplier. This is an extended and continuing process in which physicians have to weight economics, ethics, and demands of all stakeholders against each other and learn to prioritize use of resources. The goal of a comprehensive economy-oriented heath care is intended by the majority of politicians and parties in Germany and enforced by the implementation of flat rate ambulatory and Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) in-patient reimbursements. Multiple types of budget caps, insufficient flat rate reimbursements, payback of reimbursement as regress for pharmaceutical off-label use, federal-administered prices for heath care, self-coverage by hospitals for cost of patients' complications, non-reimbursement for expensive pharmaceuticals used for in-patients, etc. are just a few of the problems any physician has to face and solve daily. In contract to public believe the financial risk of diseases and medical care is not with any health insurance or sickness funds but with the heath care providing physician and/or his/her employer.
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