title: [Competition in healthcare and its implications for the patient].
abstract: From the patient's perspective there is no competition (at least none that has a positive effect on him)! In Germany a rather good medicine is being increasingly sacrificed on the altar of economics.
authors.affiliation: Geschäftsführer DVMB, Schweinfurt. dvmb@bechterew.de
authors.forename: Ludwig
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hammel
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005858:Germany; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence