Karl Lauterbach: Federal Minister of Health in the promised Corona country

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach at Hadassah Medical Centers

Karl Lauterbach’s program, which will be on the road until Tuesday, also includes meetings with Israeli start-ups, researchers and health insurance companies.

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Tel Aviv Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is unstoppable. The SPD politician sits next to his Israeli counterpart Nitzan Horowitz and raves about things that are going better in Israel than in Germany: vaccination, research, digitization.

In places, the topics even sound like they are from another world. Lauterbach explained in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, that he also wanted to learn more about how matter can acquire consciousness. The best researchers in this field are in Israel. Lauterbach is in his element.

While bulky reform projects are waiting for him in Germany – for example in nursing, with health insurance companies and hospitals – he is going to Israel to visit the health system of the future. And is trying to set new accents after the Corona dispute in the traffic light coalition around the Infection Protection Act.

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