2024-01-18 10:24:14
SPÖ federal party chairman presented on Wednesday Andreas Babler a new detail regarding the legal right to a doctor’s appointment that he propagated.
For weeks, the Social Democrats have been calling for “state-guaranteed medical care within 14 days.”
The political demand is complex in that the SPÖ wants to combine it with a legal claim, i.e. anyone who does not get an appointment with the doctor within the agreed period should be able to sue for this.
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As Babler now explains, elective doctors should be asked to pay a “fair contribution”. Specifically, the SPÖ boss would like ten percent of the average work performance of a doctor to be reserved for the treatment of statutory health insurance patients. This can initially be achieved on a voluntary basis. “The elective doctors are invited to become part of the system.”
In the event of an emergency, i.e. treatment bottlenecks or excessive waiting times for insured persons, pressure should be exerted. Babler: “If the measures do not work, they must, if necessary, be obliged to provide ten percent of their working time at the statutory health insurance rate.”
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When asked, Babler assured that this coercion can and should only be exercised in the event of “supply gaps”.
Treatment Safety Act
From the SPÖ perspective, a “Treatment Safety Act” is needed to put the legal right into effect. Nordic countries such as Sweden and Denmark serve as role models for the party. In Denmark there is the right to treatment in a private hospital if the waiting time in a public hospital exceeds 30 days. In Sweden there is a regulation on how long it can take before a specialist consultation and the start of treatment. The well-developed telemedicine system, which the SPÖ wants to promote in this country with the hotline 1450, plays an important role there. This is where the circle to elective doctors closes: According to the SPÖ’s wishes, elective physicians should have to make appointments available to hotline 1450 if patients cannot get appointments from statutory health insurance physicians on time.
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