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FoSS: The constitutional protection of social insurance
The general view is that social insurance institutions do not enjoy constitutional protection of their self-administration comparable to that of local self-administration, that they cannot invoke fundamental rights due to their lack of fundamental legal capacity and that there is no guarantee of existence for individual social insurance institutions and for the existing structured system of statutory health insurance, for example. But is the Basic Law really so indifferent to social insurance?