Merkel’s health reform bill faces rough ride

Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved 25 October 2006 a draft law to reform German healthcare even as doctors, health insurers and up to 50 government-aligned legislators lined up to oppose the proposals.

Deutsche Welle: German Health Care Reform: Mission Impossible? , August 2006 http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2117345,00.html

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