The center presented its solution to the health and social crisis: for example, the use of medical devices could be banned through rental medical companies, and doctors could be considered obliged to work in the public sector for a while.
The vice-chairman of the centre, the chairman of the parliament’s finance committee, Markus Lohi, hopes for a public debate on whether all doctors should be obliged to work in the public sector for a certain period of time. KIMMO HAAPALA
According to the center of the opposition party, the work of bachelors of medicine in public health care through temporary medical companies should be prohibited by law.
Vice-chairman of the centre, chairman of the parliament’s finance committee Markus Lohi said that the work of the Kandi has created unreasonable situations for the public.
Experienced doctors who have worked for a long time and are specialists in their field have had to hold hands and guide the client, to whom the rental company has paid the same salary as doctors who have worked for years.
This is one of the means of the city center to curb the practice of hired doctors. Lohi and the vice-chairman of the center’s parliamentary group Eva Kalli presented the center’s means to ease the situation in the welfare regions in the parliament.
– That is, if you are not a qualified doctor, you would not be able to work through temporary medical companies in the public sector. Reviving the rental medical practice does not mean that we do not need private service production in this country. We need it, we just have to direct resources in a wise way, Lohi said.
According to Lohe, it should also be discussed whether all doctors could be obliged to work for a certain period of time in the public sector, because society offers expensive training for doctors.
Eeva Kalli, the vice-president of the center’s parliamentary group, criticizes the government’s increase in the Kela compensation to the private sector. The center has its own Kela replacement show. Antti Nikkanen
Changes to Kela compensations
In Kalli’s opinion Petteri Orpon (kok) the government’s decision to give 70 million euros more money to private health care as an increase in Kela compensations was not a wise decision. The benefits of cutting queues have remained small, but the state has incurred costs.
The center itself proposes that Kela compensations should be focused on oral health, women’s diseases and fertility treatments.
– With this prioritization, they could be replaced by up to 50 percent, Lohi said.
The center would also transfer Kela reimbursements for travel costs to the funding of welfare areas. In this way, the welfare areas would have to think more than at present, how much even the abolition of the local health center will increase the costs of Kela transports. Now the welfare regions have not had to think about these costs, because they have not had to pay them themselves to the customers.
Lohi was the chairman of the social and health committee of the parliament during the last government term. He admits that it was a mistake for the committee to approve the increase in the staffing of the health and social services sector.
In the plenary session of the Parliament, all parties unanimously approved it. According to Lohe, however, it contributed to additional costs for welfare areas.
What is public responsibility?
Lohi and Kalli initiate a public debate about which services are considered to be managed by the public sector and which services and treatments people should go to the private sector to take care of.
– However, this assessment should be made by medical professionals, not politicians.
The center would also give the welfare regions two years more time to cover the deficits. Now the welfare regions must have their deficit taken care of by 2026.
– Covering the deficits is not possible within the statutory time without cuts in the service structure that are deemed unreasonable, which may endanger citizens’ rights to statutory services.
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