2024-02-15 16:04:27
Sandra Maischberger’s focus on Wednesday evening was the Health Minister’s announced hospital reform. In addition to Karl Lauterbach (SPD), the intensive care physician Uwe Janssens also commented on the ideas. In terms of foreign policy, the ARD presenter also dealt with the war in Ukraine. CNN reporter Frederik Pleitgen and former Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev assessed the current course of the war and discussed Tucker Carlson’s recent Putin interview.
The cabaret artist Urban Priol, the RTL journalist Nikolaus Blome and Helen Bubrowski, deputy editor-in-chief of “Table Media”, commented on the panel.
Karl Lauterbach outlined that he was pursuing three goals with his planned clinic reform. On the one hand, patients should be treated in those hospitals that are “best suited” for their illness. At the moment, for example, a third of all cancer treatments are taking place in unsuitable clinics. “This is a medical catastrophe,” warned the health minister.
His second goal was to protect hospitals that were absolutely needed from bankruptcy. Furthermore, there is also a lack of money, staff and medical supplies to maintain the current “highest hospital density in Europe”. Lauterbach says he sees his plans supported by most university hospitals, scientists and professional societies. Alternatively, a “spectacular, disorderly hospital death” will result.
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Uwe Janssens largely agreed with the minister’s content, but criticized the fact that the reform was “far away” from being implemented. Many hospitals are in the red, so they are threatened with a “cold shutdown”. “We have to be quick now,” emphasized the SPD politician and promised support for the transition phase in the current 130 insolvency proceedings.
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“If the reform were decided like this from March 22nd, I would rule out a large number of hospital deaths in 2024,” he said. “We will have to make cuts – huge ones,” insisted Janssens, “The money is no longer there.”
There is an undersupply for children and an “enormous” oversupply for the “very old”. “90-year-olds are being treated with chemotherapy, where I have to honestly say: Is that still adequate given the length of their life?” he asked, both rhetorically and controversially.
Lauterbach rejected the doctor’s position. As long as a lot of money is being spent on unnecessary hip, back or knee joint operations in this country, he says he is not willing to “talk about rationing old people.”
“The spring offensive failed”
Maischberger also discussed the state of the federal government during the broadcast. “We have to act as a team. “We don’t do that enough,” Lauterbach appealed for greater cohesion among the traffic light partners.
However, he downplayed the fact that he himself had described Christian Lindner as the “opposition leader in the government” at the Stockach Fools’ Court as a “humorous remark” without any discernible spark of truth. The SPD politician found praise especially for Chancellor and party friend Olaf Scholz.
While journalist Nikolaus Blome had previously described this as a “weak point in the federal government”, from Lauterbach’s point of view he should not be “reproached in the slightest”. Rather, Scholz himself is suffering from the dispute in the government and is showing leadership in the Ukraine crisis, for example, the health minister asserted.
Following this controversial presentation, reporter Frederik Pleitgen assessed the status of the war in Ukraine. “The spring offensive failed,” said the CNN journalist. The country lacks ammunition and soldiers.
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At the same time, the situation on all sectors of the front looks better than he would have thought. Although Vladimir Putin can recruit 1,000 people a day, so that there are currently 500,000 Russians around the battlefield, the Russian army only manages to conquer “relatively small places”. In addition, every gain in terrain is associated with “massive losses”. Putin’s goal is the “complete destruction of independent Ukraine,” said former diplomat Boris Bondarev.
He also wants to humiliate the West. The former diplomat gave little credence to the Russian president’s assurances that he had no interest in attacking Poland or Latvia. He would have already commented in the same way about Ukraine or Crimea in particular.
A possible victory for Putin would mean the continuation of the “crusade against Western hegemony”. “Many states are now beginning to understand,” Bondarev concluded with a bleak outlook, “that the only thing that can deter an aggressor” is to have nuclear weapons.
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