A 71-year-old man from the Vöcklabruck district worked hard to work. Now his two knee joints cause major problems for him. He can hardly tension the right joint anymore and has serious pain with every step. But he has to wait a year for an operating date, the pensioner cannot pay an election doctor.
When the retired person asked his doctor for a knee operation after the waiting time, he fell out of all the clouds. “He told me it could take about a year in our region to get it,” said the 71-year-old according to the Chamber of Labor Upper Austria. The fact that he pays the operation himself to receive an earlier appointment is excluded from the man. “I can’t afford it with my small retirement. So I have to wait and live with the pain,” he says.
Every tenth get such an offer
According to a study by the Institute for Higher Studies (IHS), one of ten people is offered to shorten the waiting time by making payments to the operational doctor or the operational doctor or can be treated in advance in their private practices – in addition to working in the hospital.
“That cannot be accepted”
“It is bad enough that it is possible at all that doctors offer some patients in accordance with payment. It is not re -accepted that waiting times for people who cannot or do not want to pay.
State policy is also responsible
Here he also sees state policy as a responsibility to significantly reduce waiting times for all insured persons and to put an end to medicines with two classes. “Health cannot depend on income,” said President Stangl.
Source: Krone
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