SPD warns CDU Health Minister of Minister of Health | EUROtoday

The SPD warns Federal Minister of Health Nina Warken (CDU) of efficiency cuts in statutory medical health insurance. “Ms. Warken is required not to go the supposedly simple path through performance, privatization and burden on the insured,” stated the deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, Dagmar Schmidt, the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.

“Instead, it is about promoting real structural reforms that aim for better care for patients and use the existing resources in the system better,” stated Schmidt.

For years, bills for statutory medical health insurance corporations have been rising greater than the revenue – the deficit is getting greater. The contributions subsequently threaten to rise once more in early 2026. Warken had lately stated {that a} answer might be to get extra funds. But it’s questionable whether or not this additionally occurs.

In the Bundestag, Warken additionally talked about additional attainable steps in the middle of the final reform dialogue: “I am for measures for better control, for an efficiency survey in the system, possibly also performance cuts.”