According to the medical association, the weaknesses of the health system are “identified” in the Sucker Coalition government program. This is accepted with benevolence, because according to President Johannes Steinhart there is “urgent need for action”.
According to Steinhart, a financial injection of two to three billion euros is required. Naghme Kamaleyan-Schmied, deputy chairman of the federal cendictions of the resident doctors, even continues. For Vienna alone, she expects a billion euros, and the need is five billion euros in Austria, as it emphasized. The Austrian health insurance fund (ÖGK) is “hard to fail” with a budget budget hole for 2025.
“Uncertainty in patients and health doctors”
Uncertainty does not only spread to patients, but also with the doctors of health insurance. “And nobody in politics has taken refuge to change anything. Nobody is interested in health, “Kamaleyan Smith complains.
Moreover, the performance and reimbursement catalogs had to be revised. Sometimes the services simply fail because treatments in the old performance catalogs are not treated, Kamaleyan Smith explains. As an example she led a patient with suspected thrombosis. Because the quick test for this, which lasts ten minutes and can be performed in practice, is not recorded in the performance catalog, it must send the patient to the hospital, which consumes many more resources.
Another requirement is that after a binding control of the patient, as the chairman of the Federal Curia of the employees, Harald Mayer emphasizes: “We must get the wild growth of the patient’s tourism under control.” Mayer also suggests the new government to break down federalism. It is often enough to offer specialized and precious top medicine in one or two places in Austria.
Elga “Falls life”
Another concern of the medical profession is that the electronic health file ELGA is “fulfilled with life”. It should not be that the treating doctor does not have access to the anamnesis that has been lifted at the Health Hotline 1450, Mayer continues.
Steinhart emphasizes the “willingness to talk and cooperate” by the medical association: “We are on the government’s side with our experience and expertise.” Sufficient resources for the health insurance system and public hospitals are of central interest: “It is important that we secure the solidarity financing of the health system,” said the president of the Medical Association.
Source: Krone
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