"§ 69 SGB V ordnet für das Verhältnis der Krankenkassen zu den Leistungserbringern die ausschließliche Geltung des SGB V an und schafft damit faktisch einen Ausnahmebereich, in dem die Regeln des Wettbewerbsrechts nicht gelten."
"Any eventual reform to health care, regardless of who wins, is going to become the usual mess based first on ideological inclination and then processed through the machine of money, industry influence, political pandering and either "compromise" or "cooperation," depending on how one views unwillingness to demand absolutes."
"It is my privilege and duty to care for people who come to see me ---- as patients. There is a respect involved with that term which is absent from the term consumer, and which is important in maintaining the dignity of the individual."