An SPD member contradicts Lauterbach's health reform!

An SPD member contradicts Lauterbach's health reform!

In a remarkable coordination in the German Bundestag, Erik von Malottki, the SPD, who is directly elected, voted as the only one of his parliamentary group against the law on the health reform of Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach. Many surprised this decision because the majority of MPs voted from the traffic light coalition for the new hospital provision of improvement law.

Malottki justified his rejection with the tense conditions in the healthcare sector that have become particularly clear to him from his home region. In his personal explanation, which he made on Thursday, he referred to the closure of the premature wiring station at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Clinic in Neubrandenburg. This was a drastic decision that not only has an impact on health care in the region, but also on the trusting relationship between doctors, patients and the health system.

Regional exploration and personal conversations

Erik von Malottki said that he had previously held talks with the managing director of the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Clinic, Gudrun Kappich, and the chairman of the employee representative, Renate Krajewski. Both have urged him not to agree to the law in its current form. The two women emphasized that the reform policy requirements often do not take into account the special needs of the local population in rural areas.

Against the background of these closures and the problems that patient care brings, Malottki expressed clear concerns about the current reform project. "I agree that hospital care in Germany urgently needs to be reformed, but local needs must not be ignored," he emphasized.

Another central argument of Malottki was the worrying ban on treatment for extreme peace in the Neubrandenburg Clinic. This regulation came into force after the required minimum number of treatment cases was not reached, a fact that has catastrophic consequences for a significant part of the children and their families. "This ban on treatment is a warning example of how decisions endanger local solutions on a purely quantitative basis and can become problematic for the people on site," he said.

Political dimensions and requirements

The lack of possibility for state governments to deviate from the central specifications, Malottki sees as a serious deficiency. "Especially in rural regions such as ours, it is urgently needed that local conditions are incorporated into the political decisions in order to create suitable solutions," said the politician. The recommendation of the Petitions Committee to take into account the previously submitted petition to the equipment of the Neubrandenburg Clinic was not implemented by the Ministry of Health, which is due to great displeasure in the region.

The voice of Malottki against the law is not just a sentence in a result of a vote, it is an expression of worries that share many patients and employees in the health industry. Execerrated for a structural renovation of the clinic landscape, he considers reforms in areas such as debt brake and taxation to be essential in order to create the financial scope for necessary adjustments.

The hospital care improvement law was ultimately adopted by most members of the traffic light coalition on Thursday. In addition to the votes of the SPD and the Greens, there were also objections from other factions, including the CDU/CSU and the AfD. Only at the FDP there were occasionally votes against the draft law, such as that of Wolfgang Kubicki.

The developments related to this health reform are not only important for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, but also take a light on nationwide health care and the challenges in front of which many clinics are in rural areas. The case of Malottki could get the stone rolling for further political discussions about the future and the condition of the health system in Germany.

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