SPD and Greens disagree with the head of health insurance – No “Freedom Day”
The move by head of the health insurance company, Andreas Gassen, to lift all corona restrictions on October 30, is rejected by the SPD and the Greens. The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach considers this to be “not ethically justifiable”. The wave of the pandemic that would come would then be too big, warned the SPD politician on Twitter. An opening would be better if 85 percent were vaccinated. Until then, the 2G rule should apply.
The Green health expert Janosch Dahmen also contradicted Gassen. “Now to pretend that the pandemic is a private pleasure and unvaccinated people are ultimately to blame for it and we could now say goodbye to all protective measures, I think that’s cynical”said Dahmen to the broadcaster NDR Info. The claim also contradicts the attitude of the majority of general practitioners. For a relaxation of the measures, a vaccination quota of over 60-year-olds of well over 90 percent would be needed, and of over 80 percent in the population as a whole for people who are capable of vaccinating. “It would be good if the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians concentrates on vaccination here and speeds up the pace here.”advised Dahmen.
The FDP health expert Andrew Ullmann considers a discussion about lifting the corona rules to be right. But it was too early to give a specific date, said Ullmann on NDR Info. “Whether it’s October 30th, All Saints’ Day or maybe mid-November,” he doesn’t dare to say anything about that. In the coming weeks you have to watch the corona developments closely.
Gassen had spoken out in favor of the end of all corona restrictions on October 30th. “After the experiences from Great Britain we should also have the courage to do what worked on the island. So we now need a clear announcement from politics: In six weeks we will also have Freedom Day! ”, Said the chairman of the board of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of the“ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung ”. (dpa)
