Nina Warken will not be able to avoid being unpopular in the coming years. Because the necessary structural reforms of the healthcare system will only exist if the new Federal Minister of Health provides a functioning system of individual interests from the CDU. This initially applies to the inpatient area. With his hospital reform, Warken’s predecessor Karl Lauterbach has entered an open conflict with the mighty hospital company and with the partly SPD-ruled countries. The Social Democrat has led this struggle hard on the border of its legal responsibilities. The local elections in North Rhine -Westphalia as a mood test The details are technically controversial, but the impulse was the right one. Because soon the staff in Germany will be missing to operate the hospitals that exist today. In addition, the quality of treatment at the costs is poor. Specialization helps against this. The closure of hundreds of hospitals is necessary on the way there, as bitter as this may be for many employees and patients. It is good and testifies to political foresight – despite some polemics that have been on the subject in the Union in recent years. The adjustments she announced must be based on the quality of treatment. If she got into special requests, the reform was still threatened to be watered down. The political price for the consistent realization of the hospital reform should be a higher one for warm: on the one hand because it will have to disappoint the hospital lobby. On the other hand, local elections are scheduled in North Rhine-Westphalia this year, an important mood test for the Union-led federal government. Those who advertise in cities and municipalities to rescue hospitals that are about to close can hope for approval. Last but not least, Karl Lauterbach contested several Bundestag election campaigns for the rescue of the Cologne-Holweide Hospital-until finally it became clear that the small house of its own reform will fall victim to. With enforcement force and empathy, the party friends in North Rhine-Westphalia will have to assert themselves, which are becoming appealing in the local election campaign, as well as those in Hesse, where local elections will occur next year. After all, the topic could color the state election campaign in Baden-Württemberg, where the Südwest-CDU, Warken’s political homeland, wants to put the prime minister again next year. A delay in the reform may seem tempting from a party policy perspective. She would be fatal for health care, which Nina Warken has also secured a place on the Federal Executive Board of the CDU with her successful martial candidate for the chair of the Women’s Union, nor is it valuable in this mixture-if the Minister of Health actually has the strength to keep an eye on the big picture and not to be afraid of the inner-party conflicts. the big stage still occurred in health policy, in all of these headwinds? Warken itself has already mercy on this question of the FAZ: on the one hand, it has assertiveness, on the other hand, the necessary empathy, on the other hand. On the day of the doctor in Leipzig, which presented something like the first contact between her and the German medical profession, it was guided by how she understands her office, namely atmospherically in delimitation. Where he ignored the medical profession, she wants to listen. “I feel serious”, Warken emphasized several times. It is to be hoped that it will not stay in nice words. Lauterbach’s style has hardly encouraged to work constructively with the minister. It wasn’t all bad for WARKE it will be crucial to build a close bond with the medical profession in the right places, for example when it comes to improving productivity in the stations and in the practices. The integration of artificial intelligence must be a building block for this, the medical parliament has already sketched it in Leipzig. The dismantling of bureaucratic processes. She wants to build on preliminary work like that for a reform of the emergency system. It would not harm it if she shared something of Lauterbach’s undetroating in fundamental questions. Open in dealing and hard on the matter, it could be possible to stabilize the health system in such a way that the citizens also felt it.
