Healthcare: Bundestag approves hospital reform | TIME ONLINE
The hospital reform is intended to make health care in Germany more efficient. The Bundestag has approved the law. Criticism comes from the federal states.
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The Bundestag has approved Health Minister Lauterbach’s hospital reform, which provides for greater specialization of hospitals and a new remuneration system. The opposition rejected the project, which now has to go through the Federal Council. Several federal states want to call the mediation committee. There was a long dispute within the traffic light coalition, but around 50 changes were finally made.
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With the votes of the traffic light group Bundestag Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) approved the hospital reform. The so-called Hospital Care Improvement Act provides for greater specialization of hospitals in Germany and is intended to lead to falling healthcare costs – also through a fundamentally changed remuneration system.
The opposition rejected the plan. The reform still has to go through the Federal Council. According to the draft law, it does not require approval there, but it can be stopped in the mediation committee.
Several federal states have announced that they will call the Federal Council’s mediation committee. There had also been a long dispute within the traffic light coalition about the exact form of the reform. Most recently, the traffic light factions added around 50 changes.
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With the votes of the traffic light group Bundestag Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) approved the hospital reform. The so-called Hospital Care Improvement Act provides for greater specialization of hospitals in Germany and is intended to lead to falling healthcare costs – also through a fundamentally changed remuneration system.
The opposition rejected the plan. The reform still has to go through the Federal Council. According to the draft law, it does not require approval there, but it can be stopped in the mediation committee.
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