Compulsory Insurance for All: Health Care Reform as an Entry into the Totalitarian Welfare State?

The renewed compromise on health reform again raises serious doubts about the feasibility of the result: Compulsory health insurance for all (as an introduction to general citizens’ insurance) is now intended to allay the concerns of private health insurance (PKV) that the basic tariff will only be selectively taken out by the uninsured only when […]

Annoyance of the insurance intermediary: insurer rejects a customer

An insurance agent gets annoyed when “his” insurance company rejects a client’s application. A lot of work – no commission. Then the question of compulsory acceptance / compulsory contracting arises – can the intermediary or the customer force the insurer to accept the application? Principle: A compulsion to conclude a contract can always be assumed […]