Health-care costs, quality and coverage – and even regulatory processes, market access issues and safe use of products – are never far from the surface in Germany, whose insurance-funded system of health-care delivery is routinely dissected and debated in public forums. Members or Parliament in Germany (Abgeordnete) are frequently held to account on health-care technology issues in a way that doesn't always happen elsewhere in the EU.
With the German national elections just over three months away, Christian Democrat/Christian Socialist Union health policy representative Maria Michalk spoke...