“Discrimination”
Cash patients are waiting for dates at the specialist
Apparently, the disadvantage of health insurance patients is getting bigger when allocating the appointment. This was the result of a representative survey by the health insurance association.
According to a new survey, health insurance patients are waiting longer for medical dates than five years ago. This emerges from a representative survey among legally insured persons on behalf of the GKV top association, about which the newspapers of the Funke media group reported on Sunday. Accordingly, 21 percent of those insured say that the waiting times for a specialist date “too long” or even “far too long” are.
A quarter of the patients are waiting for an appointment in the specialist practice for more than 30 days, but at least every second can speak the specialist within ten days, according to the study that the top association of statutory health insurance companies had created last year .
In family doctor’s practices, the situation for health insurance patients is better
Positively assess cash patients The waiting times for their family practices: 52 percent perceive the waiting times there as “exactly my wishes”, 36 percent as “still acceptable” and only twelve percent are dissatisfied. According to the survey, half of the patients are waiting for only one day and 25 percent are waiting for more than three days.
In the five-year comparison, 43 percent of those surveyed report that the waiting times have deteriorated in specialist and general practitioners. The GKV sees the unequal treatment between legal and private insured persons and insists on changes.
The “discrimination against the legally insured persons against private patients” will no longer be accepted, Stefanie Stoff-Ahnis, deputy chairman of the CEO of the GKV top association, will told the Funke newspapers. At the same time, she renewed her demand that when making the appointment, she should no longer be asked whether someone was insured by law or privately.
There has been a demand for more justice for a long time
75 million people in this country are legally insured, said Stoff-Ahnis. “It is part of a need for needs and quality that are needed to get a doctor’s appointment if you need it for medical reasons and not at some point.”
There are always demands on abolishing unequal treatment when making appointments in German medical practices. Some of them can also be found in the election programs of the parties. For example, SPD and Greens want to deposit citizens’ insurance, into the statutory and privately insured persons.
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Source: Stern
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