The audit, by Ernst & Young, offered no new clues on the sources of the payments to his party that Mr. Kohl has refused to reveal.
Pinpoint the source of the down payment.
Among other factors that underwriters examine: the size and source of the down payment (many are now requiring 20 percent); both applicants' incomes and whether they have been rising; their debt-to-income ratios; and the property they are buying.
Reuters was not able to identify the company or companies that hired the fighters, or the source of any payments to the fighters or their families.
The total prescription drug expenditure was the sum of all prescription drugs payments irrespective of the source of payment for the drugs.
For the expected source of payment, the study sample consists of 26.9 % self-pay patients, 14.7 % Medicare, 23.2 % Medicaid, 27.1 % commercial insurance, 3.4 % HMO, and 4.7%% patients with other sources.
"Mr. Bruno exploited his office by concealing the nature and the source of substantial payments that he received from parties that benefited from his official actions," he said at the time.
The party that has governed Germany for 33 of the postwar years and embodied the country's core conservatism is by no means moribund yet, but there were renewed signs today that Mr. Kohl's refusal to reveal the source of secret payments to him of over $1 million has crippled the Christian Democratic Union.
This study sought to examine the association between patients' socioeconomic status (SES), source of health payments and the quality of primary care they accessed to inform policy discussions.
Mr. Kohl's resignation came shortly after the party's executive committee instructed him to give up his post if he persisted in his refusal to clarify the source of secret payments of more than $1 million that he received when he was chancellor and party leader during the 1990's.
