Health insurance companies see Corona vaccination monitoring already failing: "Acute paper shortage"
Created: 03/21/2022, 10:49 am
By: Franziska Schwarz
According to the GKV, this could fail: there is not enough paper for all the postal items that are subject to vaccination © Bassi/Shotshop/Imago
The health insurance companies should monitor the planned compulsory corona vaccination.
But they are now protesting loudly.
Berlin – Karl Lauterbach tirelessly promotes general vaccination – probably also because many corona rules have no longer applied since March 20, which Bavaria’s Prime Minister Söder (suddenly) doesn’t like (anymore).
Perhaps the vaccination requirement does not fail ideally, but for "profane" reasons: lack of material.
In any case, the Central Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV) does not consider the general obligation to vaccinate to be feasible - for several reasons.
There is currently “an acute shortage of paper in Europe and therefore there is a lack of material for the around 120 million letters” intended to inform the insured, according to statements by the GKV on two draft laws for compulsory vaccination at a meeting of the Bundestag’s health committee this Monday (March 21st).
Corona vaccination obligation according to health insurance companies “cannot be fulfilled from an organizational point of view”
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According to the statements, the deadline for the cover letter of May 15, provided for in two draft laws, “cannot be met from an organizational point of view”.
According to this, the necessary European tendering of the print jobs alone would “break the time frame”.
In addition, the health insurance companies do not always have the current address data of their insured persons in order to "reach them safely".
The GKV also resisted the health insurance companies monitoring compulsory corona vaccination.
This is a "government task".
Reporting the unvaccinated to "fine offices" would "severely burden the important relationship of trust between insured persons and health insurance companies".
Corona: Health insurance companies warn of “millions of mistakes” in mandatory vaccination checks
The planned decentralized reporting system for the individual health insurance companies would also lead to "millions of" errors.
"Millions of citizens would have to be unjustly reported to the fine offices, despite full immunization," warned the GKV.
A draft law by deputies from the three traffic light groups (SPD, Greens and FDP) aims to make vaccinations compulsory from the age of 18.
The draft by members of parliament around the FDP politician Andrew Ullmann provides for the introduction of an obligation to provide advice for all adults - with the possibility of later creating an obligation to vaccinate everyone over the age of 50.
For the first time on Thursday, the Bundestag debated the draft laws and applications for general compulsory vaccination.
The five templates range from compulsory vaccination from the age of 18 to no to any requirement.
Parliament wants to make a decision at the beginning of April, by then a compromise should be sought.
(AFP/frs)