As a pure “placebo policy” and “completely unsuitable attempt to distract from their own decades of responsibility at the health disaster”, criticized the freedom health spokesman and chair of the NABG parliamentary health committee. Mag. Gerhard Kaniak The plans presented by SPÖ State Secretary Königsberger-Ludwig against the shortage of doctors: “What the SPÖ sells here as a big throw is in truth nothing more than a collection of long-known, unsuitable suggestions. Instead of tackling the root of evil, one escapes into expensive digitization projects and new administrative structures. ‘Health Navi’ on the phone does not heal a single illness and does not replace a missing family doctor in the country! ”
For the FPÖ health spokesman, it is an oath of revelation that the SPÖ still does not want to tackle the real causes of the problem. “The young doctors do not flee from the system because there are too few hotlines or primary care units, but because they are suffocated poorly under a murder of bureaucracy and have no time for their patients. The SPÖ, which has to answer this system for decades, proves this ‘once again’,” explained their complete refusal to reality, “explained Kaniak.
According to Kaniak, a central error in the system is already accessing medical studies, which urgently requires a reform. “It is clear that this cannot go on with the test. On the one hand, the conditions for the increase in the quota of women have been changed for female study applicants because they could have less success, and on the other hand, the exam gives little to no information whether a candidate is really suitable for the medical profession. criticized Kaniak.
In this context, the Freedom Health Speaker referred to the FPÖ’s “6-point plan” presented years ago to save the health system. “Our plan is on the table and offers concrete, immediately implementable measures. We call for an honest evaluation of personnel needs, financial fairness with real bonuses and overtime compensation, a radical de -bureaucratization, the further employment of experienced doctors and the sensible integration of election doctors in the cash register. Kaniak, who also pointed out the precarious situation of medical care in rural areas.
In the plans presented, Kaniak sees a focus on individual points instead of a complete revision of the “Austrian Structural Plan Health”. “What remains is another gap plug as before. However, Austria needs a fundamental structural reform of the healthcare system. The one -sided subsidization of the primary care centers discriminates against those resident doctors who operate their ordinations alone and at the end of their own performance, the majority of medical care to the vast majority in the country,” says Kaniak and further: ” Contracting partners ÖGK, so that there are uniform and attractive cash contracts, regardless of which a doctor wants to be able to finance this.
“The time of the announcements and the empty promises of the system parties is over. The Austrians have the right to a functioning health care, Königsberger-Ludwig would now have the opportunity to clean up the failure of the Greens. It is high time for a policy that strengthens the doctors again and focuses on the patients-and this is only possible with us freedomy,” emphasized Kaniak.