(T)he busy Spahn has extensive experience in dealing with the pharmaceutical and medical industries. In 2006, the then 26-year-old careerist with his friend, the then head of his deputy office, Markus Jasper, and the lobbyist Max Müller founded a civil partnership (GbR), over which he spent years at "Politas", a lobby agency for pharmacists, Although he already belonged to the health committee of the German Bundestag from 2009 onwards.
Although Spahn sold his shares in "Politas" in 2010 because "he wanted to avoid the impression of a possible conflict of interest". However, this did not prevent him in 2012 in the position paper, which he brought together with his CSU colleague John Singhammer against the demanded by the Greens civil insurance in position, copy the same words from the Association of Private Health Insurance (PKV) - so the " Leipziger Volkszeitung".
Until March 2015, Spahn was also chairman of the "Health Advisory Board", a society for the study of structural policy issues, which brings companies and associations together with deputies and representatives of the Federal Government to prepare legislative initiatives - purely by chance, private health insurance is also an important member.