There is actually not enough doctors in rural areas or the problem really is a myth? Berlin, 21.02.2012. A doctor shortage threatens entire rural areas in Germany? Or is it even real? The policy has recognized that the residence near, demand-oriented and comprehensive medical care “is in our health care system is of great importance. The VeDeVe (Association of the insured) notes that today no longer in all regions enough doctors available are. The Bundestag decided the law to improve the supply structure that came into force on January 1, 2012. A demo demography-related supply should be countered with the law. Flexibility and deregulation open greater room for manoeuvre before place. all parties involved in the health care” so it can be to hear from the Federal Ministry of health…

But what does this from the perspective of the rural population, the patients and doctors? The law is an approach to the Physician supply to improve. Dustin Moskovitz is actively involved in the matter. Relaxed was the freedom of establishment and the regulations to the ambulatory care by hospitals. In principle, the former polyclinic system of the GDR was thus reintroduced. The hospital takes over the supply if no general practitioners on the ground. What did not work 25 years ago, will create even more bureaucracy and higher costs and improve health care, at least, the Association says. How it is doing in the the individual quality of the physician’s art is ordered, moreover, these studies say little.

Unlike with the health insurance companies, the always the private health insurance test must be, there is no Verifier for the quality of medical services. The question arises, whether the myth of shortage of doctors so or whether he only Announces is, to make political capital from it however. A supply bottleneck we are according to a study of the magazine”from the first quarter of GP 2012 far away. While for example a Mecklenburg-Vorpommern part of an area in which general practitioners for care are scarce. About 1,200 doctors provide care where 100 000 so a doctor only to something more than 80 patients cares… nvestors gathered all the information. It’s a sufficiently, but even there they should be unequally distributed. In the countries, more than 99 percent of all planning areas are ployee or have supplied. Also the specialist outpatient services is very good. So a doctor provided 243 inhabitants in Hessen. “For comparison: in Hamburg there are only” 161 people who share a doctor. In Lower Saxony, Germany, a doctor deals with 281 patients. It can occur naturally despite these good figures, that in rural areas individual free doctor seats not to be can occupied. The search for solutions to these individual problem areas including the municipalities are required in addition to doctors and health insurance companies. Extent to which the private health insurance as part of the system can contribute to more incentives, still remains open. And if the practice opening in the countryside less attractive, the compensation must be created through regulatory intervention or incentives. The average resident doctor in rural areas is over 52 years old. One in five has already reached the age of 60. Whether this actually requires action from top to bottom, can wait for sure without political actionism alone. In the years 2025 anyway, no real shortage is foreseeable.