Interview with Health Minister Warken: "Getting the Cash Registers Aired in the Short Term"

In the F.A.Z. interview, the new Federal Minister of Health Nina Warken (CDU) outlines how she wants to avert higher contributions and performance cuts. And would like to make the abuse of the new cannabis rules more difficult.

There is a quick solution for the healthcare system. The German Hospital Association reminds the new Health Minister Nina Warken (CDU) of this. The federal government owes the health insurance funds a total of 40 billion euros. "Another ten billion are added every year," the hospital association reports. This is how much the federal government is underpaying annually for the care of recipients of state transfer payments – primarily the citizen's…

Nina Warken had little to do with health policy. Now the CDU minister is preparing to tackle enormous problems related to the exploding costs of social security funds.