Cash Reform Debate-Ak Boss: Patient billion was “Marketing-Gag”

People’s health care should not be a political game ball. “It is about the best medical and nursing services for everyone, with e-card, not with a credit card. The ÖGK must be well positioned for this, for the benefit of the insured and employees in the health facilities,” said others.

For example, it would need a financing plan with federal funds for the expansion of Resident Zorg in the next ten years and an integration of all health professions in the Resident. There should be a uniform general contract between the ÖGK and the medical association. And to determine the need for doctors and other health staff (eg therapists), studies in Austria are needed.

Margle came in the debate
Tyrol’s Governor Anton Mattle (ÖVP) started the debate during the weekend. He described the merger of the money as a mistake and called for a “reform of reform”. The announced patient billion from Turquoise-Blau 2019 is also a mistake for him. At that time it was said that one billion euros should be saved – by combining the health insurance companies and thus saving in the administration.

According to a accounting report, extra costs of 215 million euros were incurred. The examiners compared the actual administrative costs and the predictions with the government’s savings goal from 2018. According to this level, the personnel level increased slightly and the IT costs increased sharply. To date, the nine regional health insurance companies in Austria negotiate their performance catalogs separately with the state doctors.