Coalition negotiations are already underway in the German Bundestag, because the issue of „health and care“ is also urgent. Initial exploratory talks of the traffic light coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP have already ended with discussions on cornerstones in a result paper that could be target-oriented for the next four years. 22 working groups have already been formed on various topics, including health policy issues including nursing care. The main negotiations are to be completed by December 6, when the chancellor is elected. Seven major areas as overarching themes are ready for negotiations, which are being dealt with by 22 working groups, each consisting of four to six specialist politicians from the federal and state governments.
The „Health and Care“ working group consists of a total of twelve politicians, who are assigned to the overarching topic area of „Respect, Opportunities and Social Security in the Modern Working World“. Other overarching topic areas relate to education and family, digitization, climate protection, freedom and security in modern democracy, and future investment and sustainable public finances.
The „Health and Care“ working group consists of familiar faces from the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party, with members of the Bundestag such as Maria Klein-Schmeink, Janosch Dahmen as well as Kordula Schulz-Asche and Social Affairs Minister B.-W. Manne Lucha. The FDP is represented by health minister S.-H. Heiner Garg and by the members of the Bundestag Christina Aschenberg-Dugnus, Andrew Ullmann as well as Nicole Westig.In the SPD parliamentary group health expert Karl Lauterbach waits for negotiations as well as three women from Saxonia-Anhalt, from Bavaria and Lower Saxony: Katja Pähle as a member of parliament and parliamentary group leader in the state parliament S.-A., Ronja Endres as a chairwoman of the SPD in Bavaria and Daniela Behrens, health minister of Lower Saxony.