But the solutions for the problems of the healthcare system are still just about cuts to services and increased financial burden on patients for the federal bunglers. And only when there's absolutely no other way does the health minister admit that all her talk about coming contribution reductions was just hot air and wishful thinking...
Wouldn't it be time to really clean up this system? To curb the influence of the pharmaceutical industry? To subject doctors—even against their will—to stronger quality controls? To finally place health insurance funds under independent and centralized supervision?
If really double-digit billions are really being lost through fraud and negligence—then I want to see part of it recovered, because those are far more dignified cost-saving options than what the government has put on the table so far. Yes, the doctors, the industry and the funds will complain and grumble. So what?
But knowing our government, it'll probably just come down to some voluntary self-declaration by those involved—which of course nobody feels bound by anyway and won't stick to. Just like with the training placement regulations. All lies and shoddy work.
At tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD you can find the original article.