u/HaiZhung

About 95% of the money spent by the public health insurance company is „Leistungsausgaben“, I.e., paying out people for health related costs.

You can’t optimize that away, even when combining the companies. The remaining 5% is overhead. Having worked in a big company, I can tell you that big companies are not that much more efficient than small companies. In fact, the overhead is often even larger since there is lots more cross-communication involved between departments. In the end, everyone that is now a CEO would be an SVP instead, and barely anything would change.

Unpopular opinion, but I actually like the competitive landscape in public health care in Germany. IMHO this is the _best_ example for capitalism: you define exactly what each company has to deliver, and they can compete on:

1) pricing

2) service

3) additional benefits

The nature of the strong regulation here makes them compete on actual relevant things, and they can’t externalize the costs (mostly).

I actually believe having just one public health care company would result in a worse service.

I would rather focus on the ridiculous increase in wealth inequality, in Germany, and around the globe. That’s the root of all evil.

Capital can’t flee. The money is all bound in assets. How you gonna move the houses out of Europe?

China doesn’t allow me to own 100M USD worth of assets and live abroad without paying any tax. Why do we?

Im with you on that, but as you I’m not exactly sure what to do.

Everyone knows it’s Russia, but we can’t officially admit it - because if we did, it would demand consequences. But either the consequences we propose would be toothless, and a capitulation before Russia. Or, the consequences would be so drastic that war would escalate. And Russia is the one with the nukes.

So, that leaves us in an awkward position where the only thing we can do is … counterintelligence?

What would you propose?

I also had a brief heart attack here

The public discourse shifted (/was engineered to shift) so far right in the last 10-20 years, that you have to assume:

Right = extremist

Center = right

Left = center

Radical left = left

Left-leaning media is usually written based on facts. Which, somehow, in these times is accused to be „biased“.