Crisis summit required: Austria's health insurance company on the abyss!

Crisis summit required: Austria's health insurance company on the abyss!

The alarm bells ring: The Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK) faces a worrying budget hole of 900 million euros, which triggers serious worries in view of the tense financial Situation of health care. ÖäK President Johannes Steinhart urges: "The cash register, as an important pillar of health care, wobbles." This worrying development now requires immediate measures to increase efficiency and secure financing, as Steinhart emphasizes in current information. The implementation of a uniform performance catalog is long overdue; This concept has already been presented by the Medical Association.

Not only doctors and health insurers fear the future of the health system. Edgar Wutscher, Vice President of the Austrian Medical Association, also makes it clear that a crisis summit with all health politicians is necessary. In many federal states, the ÖGK has already lost influence, which also endangers health care. "It would be a certificate of poverty for a rich country like Austria if the solidarity of solidarity is ruined," said Wutscher clearly. The Mayor of Vienna Michael Ludwig also underlines the need to put health care in the first place. Vienna has already launched an investment package of 3.3 billion euros to modernize the hospitals by 2030 to address the challenges that arise from the growing budget deficit.

The situation is dramatic and the solution has to come quickly. State funds must not seep away while society is dependent on functioning health care. Steinhart and Wutscher demand a strong commitment from politics to secure the health system, in which adequate financing must be at the top of the agenda. "Now all those responsible are required to solve the major challenges in the health sector," says the camp of the Medical Association. This determination is essential to prevent the collapse of the cash register and thus the entire health care, reports krone.at and ots.at .