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Deterioration in medical care: According to a new survey, patients with statutory health insurance now have to wait longer for doctor’s appointments than they did five years ago.

This is the result of a representative survey of those with statutory health insurance commissioned by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds, which the newspapers of the Funke Media Group reported on Sunday. According to the survey, more than a fifth of those with statutory health insurance say that the waiting times for an appointment with a specialist are “too long” or “far too long”.

A quarter of patients wait longer than 30 days for an appointment at a specialist’s office. However, every second patient can still speak to a specialist within ten days, according to the study commissioned by the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds last year.

Patients with statutory health insurance are much more positive about the waiting times at their GP practices: 52 percent find the waiting times there to be “exactly what I wanted,” 36 percent “still acceptable,” and only 12 percent are dissatisfied. According to the survey, half of the patients in GP practices wait just one day, and 25 percent wait longer than three days.

In a five-year comparison, 43 percent of respondents reported that waiting times at specialist and general practitioner practices have worsened. The GKV sees unequal treatment between those with statutory and private insurance as one reason for this development and is calling for changes.

End discrimination against those with statutory insurance

Stefanie Stoff-Ahnis, deputy chairwoman of the GKV umbrella association, told the Funke newspapers that the “discrimination of those with statutory insurance compared to private patients” would no longer be tolerated. At the same time, she renewed her demand that when making appointments, it should no longer be asked whether someone has statutory or private insurance.

75 million people in this country are covered by statutory insurance, said Stoff-Ahnis. “Needs-based and quality-assured care means that they get a doctor’s appointment when they need one for medical reasons and not at some point in the future.”

The unequal treatment in the scheduling of appointments in German doctor’s offices has long been criticized. There are repeated calls to remedy this situation. Some of these calls can also be found in the election manifestos of the parties. The SPD and the Greens, for example, want a citizens’ insurance scheme into which both those with statutory and private insurance pay.

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