Healthcare in the crisis: District politicians are calling for the reversal of privatization

Healthcare in the crisis: District politicians are calling for the reversal of privatization

Mayen, Deutschland - crisis in the healthcare system: "The healthcare system was broken!" In a dark echo of reality it becomes clear: Germany's healthcare sucks! The district parliamentary group of FWM3/Die Linke, led by Hans Georg Schönberg and Aziz Aldemir, raises the alarm. Instead of taking acute concerns about medical care and care seriously, the blame for the ailing location is pushed on "irregular migration". This is not only simplified - it is misleading! The real roots of the crisis lie in a fatal neoliberal policy that has ruined the healthcare system through profit struts.

"Capitulation before populism!" Scold the two parliamentary group members. Health care, once an important state task, was left to the unpredictable game of economic competition. The fatal consequences? Hospitals and medical practices that resemble more commercial companies as a medicinal facility! Instead of patients, the focus is on profit. A dangerous respect for the unchecked competition has led to a “cold clinic death”. In rural regions, such as the district of Mayen-Koblenz, medical care is left behind the expectations.

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The central question that the municipal politicians have to ask is: What does the community clinic Middle Rhine, in particular the threatened, endangered St. Elisabeth Hospital in Mayen? For decades, the decision-makers wanted to get the problems out of the world through privatization-but they have now caught up with the failed Sana project. Even worse: the current solutions negate the needs of the population and shockingly rely on further savings. The FWM3/DIE LINKE faction calls for a radical upheaval: away from economization, towards a hospital operation for people!

"Not the profit, but the patients have to be the focus!", Schönberg and Aldemir demand loudly. This means that her words have not only become a captivating analysis, but also a call to the crime, which is more urgent than ever due to the upcoming elections. Time is forced - for a health system that interests people and not the tables. It is the moment to combat the real problems and not to go over the actual grievances with populist solutions!