["More Market" does not induce health--the relationship between social risks and the assurance of solidarity].
The prevailing fashion of German macroeconomics has meanwhile extended the common apprehension against the special characteristic of labour towards the good "health". Against the background of this currently prevailing trend, a school of thought which claims a qualitative difference between food, industrial goods or shares and good "health" is provocative. This is true even if society is getting used to a rhetoric of health markets and of the factors determining the supply and demand of health goods. In a first step it will be made transparent how, currently, commercial imperatives are dominating the health-care system. In a second step political interventions will be named that have reinforced commercial imperatives. The chances of solidarity-based alternatives for the health-care system are presented and discussed in a third step.
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Phil.-Theol. Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main. hengsbach@sankt-georgen.de
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D005858:Germany; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends*; D006304:Health Status; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012922:Social Change