providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the preferential treatment given to private health insurance (PHI …Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting …) holders while statutory health insurance (SHI) holders face continuously increasing waiting times. In order to tackle this …

health ministers to ministers of other professions in Germany during 1955-2017. German state health ministers have great … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

health ministers to ministers of other professions in Germany during 1955-2017. German state health ministers have great … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physiciantrained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

or with less discrimination. -- Private health insurance ; waiting time ; German acute care hospitals …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting … times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …