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 […]

Initiator support and controlling: When BaFin prohibits PKV sales and orders liquidation

*by Johannes Fiala, lawyer (Munich), MBA Financial Services (Univ.Wales), MM (Univ.), certified financial and investment advisor (A.F.A.), banker (www.fiala.de) and Dipl.-Math. Peter A. Schramm, actuary DAV (Diethardt), actuarial expert (www.pkv-gutachter.de) For initiators and distributors it is of crucial importance that all necessary permits are available ? including audited prospectuses. However, there are always initiators who […]