Survey: 94 percent of people in Germany would go to a specialized clinic for a planned operation - even if it is further away. A third of those surveyed rated the project as bad or very bad.
Karl Lauterbach wants to reorganize clinic financing so that clinics no longer carry out as many treatments as possible for reasons of revenue. The dispute between the federal and state governments over the reform continues, as a video link from the health minister showed. The reform is intended to change the previous system of flat-rate payments introduced in 2003.