Spa savings can make you sick

The health costs are exploding - politicians complain again and again: More money is spent on pharmaceuticals, laboratory services, diagnostic technology and operations each year. Only in a few areas, the expenditure of health insurance companies. For example, with sick pay, because fewer and fewer people get sick for a long time. And with cures and rehabilitation - which makes up less than two percent of the total health costs anyway.

Now the president of the German Medical Association Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe announced that soon there will be no medical benefits for all. Where could he save in his opinion? Ironically in the cures. In addition, Hoppe proposes to save "family-politically justified measures such as domestic help". This refers to a maximum of 62 euros per day, which are paid by the health insurance for an assistant, if mothers in hospital or for medical reasons, are unable to handle household and child care alone.



Economically, such proposals are utter nonsense: it is a austerity policy at the expense of health, often just women - and that will be expensive in the long term. There are many studies that show that people who take part in a cure - such as cancer, heart attack or a mental illness - not only change their health behavior and prevent consequential diseases. You will also get less sick leave after a cure, take less medical treatment, and stay fit for longer.

ChroniquesDuVasteMonde author Irene Stratenwerth



For a year now, mothers and fathers with health problems have finally been legally entitled to a parent-child cure - not a wellness holiday, but an important therapeutic measure. When children suffer from allergies or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) or single mothers are completely burned out, the whole family often benefits from such a cure - including health.

Another example: gynecological rehabilitation. Many women only arrive there when they have an odyssey of doctor visits, diagnoses, surgeries and therapies. They could get their problems under control, if they had the chance to deal with their own body for a few weeks with professional support. Dr. Barbara Ehret, former head of the gynecological department of a rehabilitation clinic in Bad Salzuflen and Chroniques DuVasteMonde author, for decades. By taking an early and sensible course of treatment, the patients were spared many expensive and burdensome sequelae and treatments.

The health care system does not save money when cures and home helps are cut short - quite the contrary. Physicians, however, would not have to fear such an austerity measure because the victims then see them as patients in their practices again. The president of the German Medical Association does not want to imply that his proposals follow such a cynical calculation. But he certainly did not think about the well-being of the patients.



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