Health report prompts calls for reform reassessment
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
"The government must understand that it is to a large extent responsible for the fact that the health insurance funds have declined certain future medical contracts which they do not consider to be financially competitive," says Manfred Richter-Reichhelm, principal chairman of the federal association of statutory health insurance physicians (KBV). Reacting to a report by the expert committee for concerted action in the health service, entitled "Insufficient, excessive and lacking care in the health service", he condemned the ministry of health for allowing the sickness funds to design new disease management programmes without consulting doctors.