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Health insurance coverage apparently rejects Heinz Hoenig
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Heinz Hoenig together with his spouse Annika, right here in 2023 at a premiere
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Actor Heinz Hoenig is preventing for his life, and the 72-year-old is now present process surgical procedure. The former TV star doesn’t have medical insurance, so donations needed to be collected. His spouse now provides a sobering replace.
DThe software by the severely in poor health actor Heinz Hoenig (72) to be included in statutory medical insurance was apparently rejected. His spouse Annika Hoenig mentioned this on the RTL program “stern TV am Sonntag”. The situations are usually not met. The 39-year-old mentioned she didn't know what to do subsequent.
The long-time very profitable actor (“Das Boot”, “The Shadow Man”) has been combating a life-threatening sickness for a while. According to media studies, the now 72-year-old misplaced his insurance coverage protection with a medical insurance firm after private chapter just a few years in the past.
Fans and fellow actors due to this fact donated greater than 150,000 euros for Hoenig as a part of a fundraising marketing campaign to cowl the prices of upcoming operations. His spouse was grateful: “He used to earn good money and could have taken precautions, yes,” mentioned Annika Hoenig. He all the time needed to pay for every thing himself and sooner or later the reserves ran out.
Hoenig was final seen within the RTL “Jungle Camp”.
The actor is scheduled to bear his first operation on Monday. “Heinz fights and is brave. He is very afraid, but also has a great will to live,” mentioned Annika Hoenig. The docs knowledgeable him properly concerning the dangers of the operations. “But he also knows that we stick together and that love is greater than anything that lies ahead.”
According to media studies, a bacterial an infection broken a stent in Hoenig's coronary heart and the aorta had to get replaced. There can also be a gap within the esophagus.
Hoenig starred, amongst different issues, within the 80s hit “Das Boot” and can also be recognized from tv sequence by director Dieter Wedel from the 90s (“The Great Bellheim”, “The Shadow Man”, “The King of St. Pauli”) . Most just lately he took half within the RTL jungle camp as a candidate.
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