"Any eventual reform to health care, regardless of who wins, is going to become the usual mess based first on ideological inclination and then processed through the machine of money, industry influence, political pandering and either "compromise" or "cooperation," depending on how one views unwillingness to demand absolutes."
"Ich sehe es als meine Pflicht als Abgeordnete an, solche weitgehenden, intransparenten und verfassungsrechtlich schlicht unzulässige Verträgen zu Lasten Dritter durch eine gesetzliche Grundlage abzuschwächen und ihre negative Wirkung zu reduzieren."
"The private providers of healthcare are like the private providers of computing for Connecting for Health. These greedy people just focussed on milking the NHS cash cow for what they could get while delivering as little as they could get away with - which turns out to have been almost nothing. Why don't governments learn from their mistakes?"