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Health care is a prominent focus of domestic policy in Germany as well as in the United States and other industrialized countries. The health care sector nowadays has in fact become a battlefield for lobbying players of the medical arena including patients, physicians, politicians, social scientists, and representatives of health insurance organizations, hospitals, pharmaceutical and other medical companies.
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Willich, S.N. (2001). Structural Changes in Health Care Systems — The Advent of “E-Healthcare”. In: Willich, S.N., Elm, S. (eds) Medical Challenges for the New Millennium. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9708-1_6
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