German Medtechs Aim To Score Useful Points In 2017 Election Year

The 2017 German national election, set for September 24, is not only a chance for Angela Merkel to secure a fourth term in office as Chancellor, but also an opportunity for the medtech industry to tell lawmakers how they can make the health-care system better. The medtech industry has made ten demands of the new government, with recent opinion polls favoring the status quo.

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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...

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