Gibt es strukturelle Korruption im deutschen Ge-sundheitswesen?

Abstract

The German health system uses considerable financial resources to ensure high-quality and generally accessible health care for all insured persons. However, the complexity of the health care system results in a lack of transparency, which offers many opportunities for manipulation and corruption. The paper examines whether the concept of corruption is suitable for analyzing certain institutionally and structurally undesirable
developments in the health care system, and to what extent these can be ethically assessed on its basis. This is discussed using the example of activities with which health insurance companies influence risk structure compensation in their favour. The aim is, on the one hand, to develop a social-ethically relevant concept of corruption and, on the other hand, to discuss whether the German health care system is affected by structural corruption.