This practice fee for self-initiated doctor visits—even with your general practitioner—what's the point of this nonsense? In the end, it just means people won't go to the doctor to save money. And then they get really sick and end up causing hefty costs to the healthcare system when they need much more complex treatments.
It should give healthcare system reformers something to think about when someone like Geissler takes a stand against this dismantling.
At tagesschau on the Internet there's the original article.