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"Are Not Employers' Inspectors: Associations Warn Against Bureaucracy Monsters Partial Illness
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Partially ill, partly in the job: The Minister of Health wants to introduce a new model. Medical associations and social associations react skeptically.
A partial incapacity to work should help to get the costs in the health care system under control. The proposal of experts rejects the head of the health insurance company Andreas Gassen. There was no time and money for this.
Federal Minister of Health Nina Warken wants doctors to be able to determine a partial incapacity of 25, 50 or 75 percent in the future. KBV CEO Andreas Gassen considers this to be "absurd" – and proposes seniority days from the fourth working day.
The Federal Health Minister wants medical professionals to be able to declare workers 50 percent incapacitated. Industry and crafts warn of new bureaucracy. The DGB is also waving off. The health insurance doctors speak of a "bad joke" and demand days of waiting.
The planned partial illness of Health Minister Warken encounters fierce resistance: The head of the health insurance company warns of additional bureaucracy and speaks of a "bad joke". Instead, he relies on another model.
The head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), Andreas Gassen, rejects the partial sick leave scheme planned by Federal Health Minister Nina Warken (CDU). "We consider this an absurd approach," Gassen told the Rheinische Post (Tuesday edition). "Everyone talks about cutting red tape – this regulation would be the exact opposite." For a partial sick leave certificate, doctors would have to "prepare a kind of …
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