for those Who come to the emergency room of a hospital, should future need to pay a fee of around 50 Swiss francs to pay – unless, that is, the Person must be hospitalized. To the health Commission of the national Council (SGK). The fee is to prevent people from going because of trifles to the hospital.
The SBC has adopted with 16 votes to 6, a parliamentary Initiative of GLP-Nationalrat Thomas Weibel (ZH), as the parliamentary services announced on Friday. The sister Commission of the Council of States agrees, you can draw up the national Council Commission bill.
This would create a legal basis for the cantons to introduce a fee. Such plans and in particular the Canton of Zurich has. No fee pursuant to the proposal Weibel’s patients and patients with a medical assignment, or subsequent in-patient treatment would have to pay. Children and young people under 16 years of age may be excluded.
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Weibel argues that, in recent years, the number of consultations had increased in the hospital emergency strong. Many cases proved to be cases as small claims. This leads to high costs. A hospital outpatient consultation cost, on average, 427 francs, and was therefore more than twice as expensive as the average consultation in the doctor’s office.
due to the trivia of the emergency increasingly be sought, overload but also the emergency service organizations, and lead, under certain circumstances, to wait in dangerous times for real emergencies. The opponents argue, in turn, the implementation of which would lead to administrative effort.
no, the Commission told another parliamentary Initiative, which also calls for new consultations in a doctor’s office for a fee. (fal/sda)
Created: 15.11.2019, 18:30 clock