Pharmaceutical spending and German reunification: parity comes quickly to Berlin
Katz, E.M.
Health Care Financing Review 15(3): 141-156
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0195-8631 PMID: 10137795 Document Number: 434632
As the Berlin Wall fell and the population of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) swelled by 25 percent with the addition of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), the health care system struggled to keep pace. This article examines drug outlays by the statutory sickness funds during the first 2 years of unified operations. It shows that providing equivalent coverage quickly led to equal rates of pharmaceutical consumption nationwide, while in Berlin the former East outdistanced the West by a considerable margin.
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