"Pay barriers are wrong: patient protectors and opposition to black and red specialist plan

Union and SPD want to regulate access to the specialist doctor differently – and to ask patients to pay for it. Greens and leftists are opposed to being able to buy the way to the specialist practice. And patient protector Eugen Brysch warns against an overload of the family doctors.

Patient protectors have warned against plans of the possible black and red coalition to control access to specialists via mandatory remittances from the family doctor. "There is a great risk that the new bureaucracy will harm the affected person more than benefit", said the board of the Foundation Patient Protection, Eugen Brysch, the editorial network Germany (RND). "With the introduction of a primary medical system, every family doctor's offic…

The plans of the Union and SPD to introduce a mandatory elemental damage insurance, the Federation of Insured Persons (BdV) sees as a step in the right direction. However, the consumer protectors disturb the possible opt-out possibility, and the proposal does not go far enough for them. They propose a risk pool in connection with the property tax. The plans of the [...]

The CDU/CSU and SPD are planning a mandatory primary care system, under which patients must first see their family doctor before seeing a specialist. Those who don't do so would have to pay extra. The Greens are in favor, while the AfD, Left Party, and FDP are critical.

The Greens reject an initiative by the Federal Medical Association to introduce private cost sharing in the distribution system of specialist appointments planned by the Union and the SPD via general practitioners for those health insurance patients who make their specialist visits past the system. “Stronger patient management through a primary doctor system is the order of the day — but fines are a dangerous dead end,” green health politician J…