Socially acceptable early death
Socially acceptable early death was the bad word of 1998 in Germany . Further savings planned at the time on the occasion of the health reform led to reductions in services and quality, which also affected those who had grown old in their last decade, when most of the services of the solidarity health community were necessary.
The Bremen surgeon and Medical Chamber President Karsten Vilmar used the term in a radio interview with the NDR . The topic was the health policy of the red-green federal government, which planned further savings in order to limit rising costs.
Changed remuneration systems ( diagnosis-related case groups ) reduced e.g. B. the length of stay and the number of hospitals . The early discharge shifts costs into the temporary follow-up treatment and shortens this to the disadvantage of the sick.
Vilmar said literally: "Then the patients have to be satisfied with less performance, and we have to consider overall whether this tenacity can continue or whether we have to promote socially acceptable early death." When asked whether the government's plans for an earlier death of patients, said Vilmar: "If this reform is continued, it will be the inevitable consequence."
The outrage over the use of this term was great. While some saw irony in Vilmar's testimony, others saw a cynical conceptualization and considered this to be inappropriate in memory of the National Socialist murders .
Web links
- Language-critical campaign (accessed October 1, 2015)
- Die Welt (accessed October 1, 2015)
- When boys shoot from the hip (accessed October 1, 2015)