Garmisch-Partenkirchner clinic boss complains: Lauterbach plans are “a fool’s errand”. “This is a corridor with a lid on it, and we have been reaching this limit for a very long time,” says Frank Niederbühl, managing director at the local clinic.

The draft law also provides for a new regulation of hospital financing: the clinics should receive 60 percent for the provision of qualified staff and a broad medical spectrum.