Over the past ten years, expenditure on outpatient clinics and medicines has increased enormously. The planned care of the hospitals by medical specialist centers has hardly worked so far. Experts explain why many long-awaited reforms are simply not happening.
It actually sounds paradoxical: health care expenditure in Austria is skyrocketing, rising by 41 percent from 22.4 to 32.1 billion euros in the past ten years alone, of which 16 billion euros is spent on hospitals. Yet the feeling is constantly conveyed that there is much “saved unto death”. The approximately 120 public hospitals complain that they are not getting enough money. The employees complain that they mainly save on their backs.
Source: Krone
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