The reform plans aim to change the remuneration with flat rates for treatment cases. The basis for financing by the health insurance companies should be more precisely defined service groups with uniform quality standards.
The states agreed that extensive corrections to the draft were necessary in order to make a reform that was too significant for that to fail. The first reading in the Bundestag is expected before the summer, says the federal health minister Karl Lauterbach. He doesn't believe that the reform will fail; it is too important for that, he says, and one is doomed to succeed.. "There is no other reform." One is "doomed to success," says the German health minister, who says the reform is a "historic opportunity" to rebuild the system in the way it is needed..