Three Swiss hospital bosses talk about the Swiss healthcare system in an interview – their statements on the financial situation of their organisations are alarming. They see the problems primarily in the behaviour of patients.
by BezugssystemCH1903
Three Swiss hospital bosses talk about the Swiss healthcare system in an interview – their statements on the financial situation of their organisations are alarming. They see the problems primarily in the behaviour of patients.
by BezugssystemCH1903
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>Today (…) the patient (…) goes to the doctor much more quickly and expects comprehensive treatment at any time.
Wait, what….? In the country with the highest co-pay in Europe, are we actually blaming the patients for being sick, asking for treatment, and driving costs upwards? Does the hospital actually expect you to wait until your disease progresses beyond repair?
I’m happy to pay a high co-pay when I have access to a doctor. Preventative care pays off…
Keep calm and raise the insurance premiums!
Funny, I’m trying to go as little to the doctor as possible. But I did have to go 4 times over the past year because people kept taking public transport sick to go to work sick and after bringing a Telmed sick certificate two times I started getting comments about why I’m sick again and why I’m sick for so long because everyone got sick so often. So I had to go to the doctor. Loved spending 1000.- out of pocket for those doctor’s visits just so I could get a sick certificates.
And I can guarantee you, most people keep putting going to the doctor off for way too long due to it costing so much money, and coming in later usually means it will cost more to remedy the issue.
Edit:
additional thoughts: if they talk about more patients, are they talking about more patients at their facilities or more patients overall? If overall, is it in line with overall population growth, does it take into account that we have a huge overhang in the baby boomer population who are now all at an age that requires more healthcare? If only at their facility, does it take all the local hospital closures into account and that many local general practitioners can’t find a replacement, which means patients need to turn to larger regional or over-regional facilities to get healthcare?
Complete BS. They are blaming why people are getting sick and coming to hospitals.
Do you know how much insurance we pay?
The problem is that the money available is badly allocated. When every surgeon is earning 500K per year, with many earning upwards of 1M, of course the money is not going to be enough.
Edit: this is the case for many specialties, while healthcare professionals who are not specialized (nurses for example) are underpaid. The top earners hog most of the money available.
I started civil sercive last week in a hospital. Before that I worked in IT as a developer. Let me tell you, the office I work in, has worse infrastructure than some random IT startup I worked at. I work at a pretty big hospital, so I was totally shocked. I didnt expect the newest 4k screens and laptops with GPU but I did not expect to be catapulted back into a time before I did apprenticeship…
This is bs
Fuck this shit so much. I’m sitting at home with knee pain and in most other European countries I would just go to the doctor and get physical therapy. Here I just know they’ll charge me 200 CHF for 5 minutes of talking which ends with “just wait and see”.
I’ve said it before, but if there is another significant increase of insurance cost this year I’m leaving. This is absurd.