Measures required: Lower Saxony's doctors, dentists and pharmacists warn of drug shortages. Shortages of 472 medicines are currently documented.
Associations see the causes as depending on Asia, market concentration and price regulations. Only three weeks ago it became known that the statutory health insurance companies, having secured their finances in 2023, were expecting a deficit again next year. They only made up around six percent of care in 2018, only twice as much as in 2018. Only recently, the head of Techniker Krankenkasse, Jankens Baas, declared that pharmaceutical companies were making "sometimes obscene" profits.