Today in Rhein-Main: Feldmann and Binding

Good evening,

Thinking about why the doctors are "on strike" (the term doesn't quite apply to freelancers) makes you shake your head.

In fact, GPs have recently been paid more for treating new patients.

And they protest against the fact that this regulation is now being abolished.

Understandable, but: a bonus for new customers?

Other industries would like that too.

The healthcare system is just a wonderful example of what happens when the state interferes as it pleases over the years and decades.

Of course there is an internal logic – new patients initially mean more work – and every hard-working doctor is granted every euro.

But praise to everyone who deregulates instead of inventing more and more regulations.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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We'll stick with healthcare.

Do you know the word "stack crises"?

Not a bad invention, has what it takes to be word of the year.

What is meant is that the major crises in society are currently piling up one on top of the other, first the pandemic, then inflation, then the war, you can no longer see through.

This is now about the bottom crisis in the stack, which has recently receded into the background, although the corona numbers are increasing and by no means all infected people get away with just a little cold and cough.

Rather, the truth is that the number of patients in hospitals is growing and growing and rescue workers have to travel farther and farther to accommodate patients.

Colleague Marie Lisa Kehler titled her report on the situation in hospitals “clinics at the limit”.

Their analysis is not pleasing.

Whether Frankfurt as a whole is at its limit,

It's hard to say, but in any case the city is looking forward to the Sunday after next, when the people of Frankfurt are supposed to decide whether Peter Feldmann will remain mayor or not.

Breaking News: His solo effort in binding continues to amaze.

The mayor flirts with the city boarding the brewery to save it.

This has already led to annoyance among the Greens and the Volt faction in the Römer, because Feldmann had apparently not coordinated with anyone and not everyone thinks that running breweries is part of the communal services of general interest.

Now the Radeberger Group has also made a statement, a spokeswoman said pointedly that the first thing to worry about is what will become of the workforce.

Incidentally, floppy ass is served in the canteen of the city councilors in the Römer.

And: After a supporter initiative for Feldmann, a deselection initiative has now also been founded around the real estate agent Rainer Ballwanz.

And

the Frankfurt Cathedral Museum is also paying tribute to the artist Hans Leistikow

the planned fairground on Frankfurt's Rebstockgelände is a threat to important logistics areas for the trade fair

the drinking water in Offenbach is becoming scarce.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website.

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for Wednesday

First a lot of clouds and local rain, then increasingly friendlier and drier as the day progressed.

Again highs around 20 degrees.

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Dirk Remmert

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