Pay for the dentist your self?: CDU Economic Council defends social cuts – Lauterbach criticizes “insecurity among the population” | EUROtoday

Despite large criticism, the CDU Economic Council is sticking to its name for cuts in social coverage advantages. The normal secretary of the affiliation, which is formally unbiased of the CDU, Wolfgang Steiger, spoke within the “Augsburger Allgemeine” of the “expression of a responsible policy towards employees”. He said that his objective was to make sure that social spending didn’t proceed to rise “and so that less and less net of the gross remained”.

The CDU Economic Council, which is near the celebration, printed a paper on the weekend entitled “Agenda for workers in Germany” and referred to as for complete cuts. In order to stop an extra improve in social safety contributions, he desires to abolish, amongst different issues, the mom’s pension, the pension at 63 and the essential pension. Unemployment profit ought to subsequently usually solely be paid out for one 12 months.

Steiger additionally promoted the controversial demand that dental companies not be paid for by statutory medical health insurance corporations sooner or later: the medical health insurance corporations’ catalog of companies is “one of several possible starting points that need an honest debate,” emphasised Steiger.

The Economic Council’s proposals have attracted a variety of criticism since they grew to become identified, together with from the employees’ wing of the CDU. Several politicians additionally expressed their opposition on Tuesday. The Green celebration chief within the Bundestag, Katharina Dröge, instructed the “Augsburger Allgemeine”: “I find it absolutely elitist to claim that dental treatment is a luxury that should be paid for privately.”

Former Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has now additionally spoken out. He criticizes the CDU Economic Council’s proposal that statutory medical health insurance sufferers ought to pay for their very own dental remedy sooner or later.

“It could even strengthen the AfD,” says Lauterbach

“Our goal must be to provide necessary services more efficiently, not to privatize them,” mentioned the SPD politician to the “Rheinische Post”. “The constant uncertainty of the population with proposals for social cuts without reform proposals for more economic growth could even strengthen the AfD.”

The left-wing parliamentary group chief within the Bundestag, Heidi Reichinnek, criticized within the newspapers of the Germany editorial community that what was being put ahead by the Union’s ranks to reform current techniques was nothing apart from “a kick in the face of the majority of people in the country”. The CDU’s prime candidate for the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Daniel Peters, additionally rejected the Economic Council’s proposals in an interview with the identical media group: Completely privatizing dental remedies is “an extremely bad idea”, particularly since a variety of dental companies already must be paid for privately.