Free medical profession demonstrates against public health policy
Before the red city hall in Berlin demonstrated today the free medical profession (FÄ) and the German society for insured one and patient (DGVP) against the public health policy of the Federal Government. Wieland Dietrich of the FÄ explained imedo the most important demands
Berlin - on Friday the free medical profession and the German society for insured one and patient demonstrated against a public health policy in Berlin, which becomes not only clearly more expensive, than one communicate to the citizen. Here also clearly worse achievements would expect it, than them could offer the current health system to it. The health reform decided by the Federal Government works according to Wieland Dietrich, the secretary of the FÄ, whereupon, the health care in health centers, so-called medical supply centers (MVZ), to offer clenched. First that sounds only once good, the idea is to be able to offer “everything at a place”: Both the general medical profession and specialists and the possibility of the stationary support. These health centers are not only by far able to cover the existing need in opinion of Dietrich.
Profit instead of health
Even after the decided fee rises for the physicians good and motivated physicians are not to be held in the long term into the MVZ. Therefore a cost-hitting a corner financing can be achieved only by means of one, how Dietrich calls it, “transverse subsidization” by stationary support. This practice is today already handled in some hospitals and university hospitals. The patient is stationarily accepted thereby a few days, because the health insurance companies per day pay determined sentences to the hospitals. Thus develop a “unfair competition”, say Dietrich. The physicians into the MVZ were stopped inevitably rather profit-oriented on therapies to decide as in the sense of the best treatment for the patient.
In addition the insured ones would have to count on substantial difficulties with the date assignment. The waiting periods will in any case extend according to Dietrich's opinion. “In the cities the supply may be attainable by MVZ”, means however particularly chronic the expert, “patient and pensioner on the country has often no possibility of departing far from at home to.”
Does the economy control the policy?
Dietrich says that planning is already and partially also the building of such MVZ by profit-oriented finance companies under way. The FÄ sees thereby above all “residence near house and specializedmedical supply” in danger. Further it expresses against the electronic health card and wishes themselves “more funds for the supply of the patients” instead of for a “anonymous, industrialized health economy”.
Wieland Dietrich particularly refers to the connections between politics and economics. The chief of the Bertelsmann company, Liz poppy, is a good acquaintance of health minister Ulla Schmidt (SPD). The Bertelsmann subsidiary “Arvato” is to take over the biometric pictures for the electronic health card. Karl Lauterbach, Member of the Bundestag and health expert of the SPD, sits together with Liz poppy in the executive committee the “Rhön clinical centers AG”, one of the companies, which plans and accomplishes the building of the MVZ. A Schelm, who thinks bad thereby.
