Implementing a visit fee
Family doctor visits for a fee
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7 thoughts about the healthcare sector’s main problems
- Health concerns are not solved by the healthcare sector alone in the big picture, but rather by the economic success of society and the understanding at all levels of society that investing in health is worthwhile.
- Considering the current state of healthcare in Estonia, the idea of a mega-hospital …
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Emergency services for a fee
My recommendation would be to make ambulance services paid. Since I work in the ambulance service in Tallinn, I see how many calls are not emergencies but rather a convenience service. It's easy to call 112, and three staff members come and give paracetamol – people have no sense of …
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Three years of mandatory work in Estonian healthcare
A significant part of the shortage of doctors is due to the fact that they go abroad to work after graduating. The shortage of nurses, on the other hand, is caused by the fact that they move to the private sector, for example, to aesthetic medicine. If a requirement were …
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I support the introduction of an ambulance visit fee. The amount could even be symbolic (e.g., 5 euros), and I believe everyone can find that money. We no longer live in a time where we have to get everything for free, but somehow we still seem to have a Soviet-era mindset that everything should be free. Let’s not be afraid of money, and let’s not be afraid to ask for it!
A visit to the family doctor could also be charged a fee in principle (again, even a symbolic amount), or we could consider an option where the visit itself is free, but if blood tests or other examinations need to be done, then all other procedures would still be chargeable. I’m not exactly sure how it is currently…
And I would also consider implementing a reasonable fee for calling an ambulance to reduce the waste of ambulance resources on calls where an ambulance is not necessary. A reasonable fee that ensures the call is not left unmade but still makes people think twice about whether the ambulance should be used as a Coldrex delivery service.