Off to Hanover on 10 June 2026!
The federal government is getting serious - and so must we. With the SHI Contribution Rate Stabilisation Act, which the Federal Cabinet passed on 29 April 2026, Health Minister Nina Warken (CDU) is pushing ahead with an attack on our healthcare system that directly affects us all: employees, patients, the insured - and therefore society as a whole.
What lies behind the harmless name is anything but harmless:
- 5.1 billion euros are being cut from hospitals - clinics are receiving less even though their costs are rising
- only half of the wage increases in the nursing sector are being refinanced - our hard-won wage increases are being devalued
- the same is threatening the rehabilitation sector - here, too, our collective bargaining successes are at stake
- co-payments are rising for the first time in 20 years - for medicines, aids and hospital stays, to be dynamised annually in future
- binding staffing requirements are being further delayed - instead of finally being strengthened
This is not an oversight, it is a system. It was only in April that plans for a cutback in integration assistance and child and youth welfare were announced. In future, health and social participation are no longer to be geared towards people's needs, but towards austerity dictates.
In the end, we will bear the burden: the employees, the patients and the insured. This is unacceptable from a socio-political point of view - and we cannot accept it in silence.
Rally on 10 June in Hanover
On Wednesday, 10 June 2026, the health ministers of all Federal States will meet in Hanover - and we will be there to deliver our unequivocal message to them.
Location: Platz der Menschenrechte 1 (formerly Trammplatz), Hanover city centre
Time: 12:30 to 15:00 (arrival by 12:00)
We are organising buses to Hanover. Please register by 5 June 2026 via the following link:
Binding registration now - form for (bus) travel to the Health Ministers' Conference on 10 June in Hanover
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