The Ampel coalition talks are nearing completion - a new health paper has been submitted to our editorial team.
The plans described therein outraged the CSU.
Berlin / Munich - The traffic light * has turned into the home straight.
The SPD *, Greens and FDP * want to present a coalition agreement this week.
Step by step, the parties are forging the results of the individual working groups into an overall concept.
The traffic light plans for the topic of health and care are available to our newspaper.
The paper is clearly not a final version, it still needs editing.
In terms of content, however, much of it should be found in the coalition agreement.
Traffic light negotiations: Excerpts from the coalition agreement are available
It becomes clear that the traffic light parties are apparently aiming for a reform of the hospital landscape. A “government commission set up at short notice” is to present recommendations for new financing that “supplements the previous system with a system of revenue-independent flat-rate fees that is differentiated according to care levels (primary, basic, standard, maximum care, university hospitals)”.
The traffic light paper goes on to say: "In federal states whose hospital planning is based on these guard rails, the federal government assumes a share of the state's expenses for needs-based investment support for hospitals." In plain English, this means that the states are subsidized.
This should appear particularly attractive to those who are currently far less able to meet their investment obligations than Bavaria - even if the clinics in the Free State * still see potential for expansion.
Traffic light coalition: the federal government should have more say for hospitals
On the other hand, the federal government would also gain influence on hospital planning through the new regulation. This is explosive because many people in Berlin are of the opinion that there are far too many hospitals in Germany that cannot always offer an adequate quality of care. Regionally, however, one often sees it differently and emphasizes the importance of easy accessibility for patients. With the subsidies, the federal government would have new leverage.
That is why the alarm bells are ringing at Bernhard Seidenath.
A supply close to home is rightly at the center of the considerations of the traffic light coalition agreement, emphasizes the chairman of the health and care policy working group of the CSU.
"At the same time, however, centralizing the health care system is diametrically opposed to this approach and leads to even more practical and unrealistic legislation at the federal level, which patients and service providers on site have to pay for."
Cannabis legalization: CSU politician Seidenath does not understand
Seidenath has similarly little understanding for the cannabis legalization * which is also planned in the paper. To disguise that with the point of "protection of minors" is a fat dog. "The (negative) experiences with alcohol and nicotine in this area should not lead to an adjustment to the worst standard," the CSU working group stated in a statement.
Nevertheless, Seidenath believes that not everything that is in the coalition paper is bad.
For example, the planned additional support for nursing staff is positive.
The traffic light wants to make the job more attractive.
This should succeed "for example with tax exemption from surcharges, through the abolition of shared services, the introduction of sponsored jumpers' pools and a right to family-friendly working hours for people with children who have to be cared for".
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