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in the

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after she resigned, and he was re-elected in November 2023 on the shared

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list. Bushoff's focus is on curative healthcare as well as the damage cause by induced earthquakes due to extraction from the

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. An

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to the government's healthcare budget proposed by Bushoff was passed by the House in February 2024 that would appropriate €27 million towards establishing

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treatment centers. Minister of Health

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had earlier refused to allocate any funds despite

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calling for such centers. Later that year, he wrote a bill with

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(

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) that would allow the

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(ACM) to investigate and block takeovers of medical providers with a revenue of less than €30 million. This authority already existed for larger companies. Bushoff called it unjust that healthcare funding ended up at private investors.

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