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Word: praxisgeb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Germany is further along the reform path on which France is now gingerly embarking. After a scorching debate that enlivened leftist opposition to the Social Democratic?Green coalition of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the government launched its reform in January. Its controversial centerpiece: a €10 Praxisgebühr, or quarterly fee every patient must pay on the first doctor's visit during that three-month period. The fee was widely attacked by doctors and patients alike as awkward and onerous. But along with costlier fees for unreferred visits to specialists, a larger patient share of drug costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Orders | 8/15/2004 | See Source »

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