The planned innovations in the health system are a topic in the National Council today. Healthcare should be accessible by e-card, not credit card, Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) stressed during a Greens’ “Current Hour”. There is also a need to strengthen the established sector. He relies on the financial settlement negotiations. Philip Kucher made his first appearance as SPÖ club president.
Green health spokesman Ralph Schallmeiner spoke of an “extremely difficult situation in the hospitals” and enormous pressure on employees. There are currently 800 blocked beds in Vienna. There are enough doctors, but too few in the private sector.
More attractive work as a health insurance fund doctor
An amendment to the Primary Care Act, which aims to provide more Primary Care Units (PVE) and will be tabled in the National Council today, aims to remedy the situation. PVE is wider, holiday substitutions have been clarified. Rauch wants to expand the health hotline 1450 into a clearing unit. ÖVP health spokesperson Josef Smolle emphasized that there will be 100 additional health insurers this year, but that the work of health insurers should also become more attractive in the medium term. A uniform Austria-wide service catalog is needed here.
Everyone deserves the best possible care
There is a new face on the front row of the SPÖ. Philip Kucher, manager of the club since yesterday, thanked – without naming names – parliamentarians from other parties who had congratulated him on the new post. When it comes to health, it doesn’t just need headlines, everyone deserves the best health care possible.
“Enormously high social costs”
The FPÖ and NEOS were not very happy with the measures. Gerhard Kaniak (FPÖ) was disappointed with the government’s previous health work. The financial equalization that is now presented as an opportunity has been extended for two years, he criticized. For him, the GP remains a model for the future in the private sector, for panel doctors it must be made more attractive. NEOS boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger testified to Rauch’s lack of leeway without federal reform, criticizing the “hugely high Social Security contributions”.
Another way
In the National Council today, the legal end of the corona pandemic, the contribution to the cost of living for socially disadvantaged families and the new parent-child pass are being laid down and the rules for the climate bonus are being adjusted.
Source: Krone
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