Merkel defends health reform as ‘breakthrough’

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Series Details 5.7.06
Publication Date 05/07/2006
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel was forced to defend her new health reforms, 4 July 2006, against an avalanche of criticism from patients' groups, businesses and economists that threatened her with her first serious political setback since becoming German chancellor in 2005.

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