With suggestive images like the "cost explosion," citizens are meant to be led to believe that they must pay increasingly more for their health due to the rising number of older and thus care-dependent individuals, that medical progress comes at a price, and that their own demands as labor costs threaten the competitiveness of the economy. This is contrasted by an incapable politics that helplessly stumbles from reform to reform. Behind these slogans lie tangible economic and political interests. However, these are not outright lies, but myths that select facts and present them in a way that seems to align with common experiences. This book sheds light on the most frequently encountered myths about our healthcare system: - ruinous labor costs - the disastrous demographic development - the expensive medical progress.