Cm not to be mentioned about proposal to index with GPs: « NFFAST for the chronically ill and low incomes »
CM chairman Luc Van Gorp: « If every healthcare profession argues, such as the doctors, that means a sturdy additional cost for the patient. » – © Tom Palmaers
CM Health Fund is extremely concerned about the proposal of the Doctor Bonds Bvas and Kartel to index the brake money for the general practitioner. « This is detrimental to the chronically ill and low incomes: do we really want them to stay away from the doctor because they cannot miss the money? », Responds chairman Luc Van Gorp.
Source: Belga
Today at 13:50
The doctors’ syndicates state that their proposal will yield 114 million euros in savings. According to them, increasing the personal contribution via the brake money will also prevent patients from going to the doctor too quickly.
But Van Gorp warns: « If every healthcare profession argues, this means a solid additional cost for the patient, without getting something in return in terms of quality or accessibility. If we share the total saving on health care – around and with the billion – by the number of Belgians, every Belgian will have to contribute to this legislature from their own pocket for care. »
For him it is also wrong to think that the brake money the only financial contribution of the patients, since they also pay social security. In addition, supplements often come as more and more doctors deconvention.
For Van Gorp, the chronically ill will pay the bill: « Check it out from the glasses of someone who is chronically ill and follows long treatments: you soon left for ten sessions with the physiotherapist, then you pay brake money every time. The worse your health is, the more you pay. The braking money has a much greater impact on chronically ill ».
Van Gorp also points out that people with a low income give a much larger part of their income to care, and that deferment of care also has a fare.
