During a press conference on July 4 in Berlin, the parties in power (CDU and SPD) defended their health care reform plan, whose broad outline had been announced the day before (see our article nº 6681). The plan had triggered huge protests from the opposition but also from employers, sickness insurance offices, many health experts and the media. (Réf. 06685)
The draft reform is “an opening on two aspects”, said chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), stressing that never a government had taken as many “structural measures” to consolidate the financing of the national health insurance system. In addition, it will be the first time that health insurance will be partially financed by taxes, she added. For Kurt Beck, president of the SPD, “the negotiations were difficult, because the starting positions were very different”. “But we succeeded in initiating a tr
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