Monday, October 25, 2010

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union warns of economic hostage for patients

union warns of economic hostage for patients

plans federal government: people are sick in advance and pay more - union spokeswoman says the looting of law - have to pay cash-patient care physicians themselves in the future?


By Andreas Klamm-Sabaot

Berlin. 25. October 2010. The trade union Verdi, Ellen Pascoe, member of the national board of the union Verdi warn of a further dismantling of solidarity systems in medical and health care for people in Germany. The new plans by Federal Health Minister Philipp Rösler could lead to adequate medical and health care will in future only be possible for the rich and privileged people in Germany.

According to plans by Health Minister Philipp Rösler, the union should pay the capitation fee for patients with higher healthcare costs themselves, while the employer contribution is intended for future frozen at a rate of 7.3 percent. There had also planned by the Federal Minister of Health that the patient treatment by doctors from their own Pocket to pay and come back - can reimburse their expenses by health insurance - usually only a part.

could with these new plans, health, medical and medical care, a human rights guarantees, on the basis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights since 1948, soon become no longer affordable luxury estate in Germany, the rich only and better-off people pay in Germany. On the occasion of the hearing on the SHI-financing law to regulate the financing of statutory health insurance in Germany, warned the United Services Union (Verdi), the federal government before a system change in health care. "This bill will be Health Minister Rösler apparently perpetuate as the patron saint of the pharmaceutical and medical lobby. The SHI-finance law is a patient-Ausplünderungsgesetz become. This provoked the opposition of all workers, "said ver.di board member Ellen Paschke. be

workers can not guarantee that they could never get sick so that duplication of losers, the losers in the Federal Republic says. As in many places is already known: who gets sick of the flies - that is, loses its labor force work in the aftermath of termination. A sufficient number of paid jobs for disabled people does not exist in Germany. Moreover, disabled or chronically ill people do not lobby spokesman and not a lobby office in Germany. Moreover who called into the sequence of disease worse and poor is the flies and the general public and health care in Germany, because health care is granted under any new plans by the federal health minister, normal mortal workers can not.

Rösler wants with his new plans appeared to bleed the patient. "With this kind of patronage politics in favor of practicing doctors, Mr. Roesler sick and needy in economic hostage," added Ellen Paschke.

on property performance principle should not be shaken. This scheme make sure that medically necessary services without the look in your wallet and be done. The speaker warned of a worse position for ill, the chronically ill and disabled people who usually have already been through health inequalities in general because of illness usually less money in their wallets, not as sick people. Experience, are ill, chronically ill and disabled people to compete in the labor force labor market in Germany is not to the same opportunities available. The new funding approaches could be a further disadvantage and exclusion of sick people perform in Germany, whatever the cause or nature of the disease. Whether a disease is the result of an accident, work accident, an infection, a genetic defect or even a result of an occupational disease, to play in the new plans for the financing of health care in Germany a subordinate role. In Germany, the fears that in future only a medical and medical care for rich and wealthy people will be soon be reality. "A comprehensive health care should not be a privilege of the rich, but must be open to all citizens," said Paschke.

on the ever-increasing social imbalance in the health care in Germany makes the trade union Verdi in the nationwide operational action campaign with the slogan "Access is different," carefully. Verdi spokeswoman Ellen Paschke reiterated: "A functioning health system of the future needs more not less and solidarity. For detailed information on action week "access is different" on the web at http://gerecht-geht-anders.de available.

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