In the health sector, external experts should be listened to more than to lobby groups that cling to their vested interests.
The Freiburg economist Bernd Raffelhüschen is absolutely right: In the future, patients with statutory health insurance will have to pay more in order to stabilize revenues and dampen expenditure. Otherwise, the system will fly around our ears, or performance will have to fall.
Both would harm above all those who cannot make private provision and want to protect the Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD), the low-income earners.
All the more incomprehensible is his knee-jerk and silly class-struggle rejection that only "professors" could afford the deductible.
Financially overwhelmed insured persons are already exempt from co-payments, which could be continued. Other models are also conceivable: for example, to reduce the GKV-secured benefits, the higher the income.
The rest could be secured privately. With patchwork as recently, Lauterbach does not get out of the financial misery. It's time for big throws à la Raffelhüschen.