"The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system, with its privilege to pay doctors and hospitals better, is basically putting the whole system at jeopardy, because many first-class hospitals and first-class physicians are wasting their time on trivial cases of privately insured and are no longer accessible for the difficult cases from the public system, despite [the fact] that the hospitals and also the education of those professionals is paid for by public money."

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Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2007.

Karl Lauterbach

#Difficult Quotes

“The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.”
“Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe...”
“There's a communist living in the White House!”

Source : "The Sweep: Right wingers take on 'Left Coast'" by Mark Preston, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2011.
“Marriage is memory, marriage is time.”
“Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.17, Open Road Media
“Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.”
“The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.”
“The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.”

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