"Plans of the federal government as a pioneer of state-controlled health care"
04.09.2023 13:19
In a statement on the so-called Hospital Transparency Act, the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) warns against the introduction of "direct state medicine that is controlled down to the last detail." KBV.
In principle, the KBV welcomes the goal of strengthening the transparency, orientation and ultimately the decision-making autonomy of patients by clearly assigning hospitals to care levels in conjunction with corresponding service groups. With the present formulation aid, “we are clearly moving away from a successful organizational principle of German healthcare, as recently demonstrated in the Corona pandemic,” Drs. Andreas Gassen, Stephan Hofmeister and Sibylle Steiner made clear. “Rather, inconsistent responsibility and approach pave the way for health care that is directly controlled by the state and decoupled from self-administration.”