Jens Spahn may not be the most popular politician in Germany at the moment, but not every quote that is said about him actually came from him.
A meme is currently spreading that shows Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) “quoting” a sentence about nursing care insurance. This quote is put into Spahn's mouth and spread thousands of times on Facebook. The problem is that Spahn never said these two sentences!
You can read here: “Nursing care insurance is not fully comprehensive, but if the family helps, the money is enough. In any case, most people are only in a nursing home for a short time, so the financial risk is justifiable.”
Origin
These sentences arise from an interpretation of Spahn's statements regarding health policy, formulated based on an interview in the medical newspaper. This interview, which now forms the basis for interpretation of these “quotes”, was published on July 2nd, 2014 in the Ärzte Zeitung. The interview there is entitled “Waiting times drive people crazy”.
The sentences that are now being put into Jens Spahn's mouth with these memes were published by Berlin Green MP Anja Schillhaneck on Twitter, but were not declared as quotes:
When it comes to the “mega topic of care,” Spahn says it like this: Long-term care insurance is not fully comprehensive, but if the family helps, the money is enough. In any case, most people are only in a nursing home for a short time, so the financial risk is justifiable.
— Anja Schillhaneck (@A_Schillhaneck) February 24, 2018
This also cites the interview from the Ärzte Zeitung as the basis for this thesis. ( any case, it's worth reading the @aerztezeitung https://www.aerztezeitung.de ). You can think what you want about Spahn's statements, but you have to make it clear at this point that this sentence did not come from him.
via Handelsblatt: “Nothing will happen with Spahn in care”
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