Berlin (ddp). Philipp Rösler (FDP), the Federal Health Minister wants to enforce a new health system also against opposition in Germany. «I have a clear goal: to bring that works well for 80 million people a new health system on the way», Roesler said of the newspaper «picture on Sunday. He wants it on his own popularity to take no consideration. «If you feel committed to this Office, you have to take unpleasant things in purchase», he said.

Rösler announced that he would provide more competition in the new health system. «We need more freedom: freedom in the choice of therapy, the choice of the doctor and the choice of the insurance fund», he said. Statutory health insurers would have to stand again with each other in the competition, may require different posts and can offer different services. «Currently there is the same output at the same price but everywhere, without any patient seen through what actually happens with his money, and who what how charges», the Minister said.

Roesler said doctors should have more time for their patients in the future again and be relieved of bureaucracy. He studied medicine, because he wanted to have with people. «When I was done, I had more to do with quality assurance certificates.» «More time for bureaucracy as a treatment for» he recalled. He had gone into politics to change that. «If there is a good relationship of trust between doctor and patient, when doctors and nurses get time for their professional ethos, you need also no quality assurance certificates», he said.