AfD on health and care

The AfD wants basic medical care to remain organized by municipalities and to be guaranteed everywhere in Bavaria. Hospital funding should follow need, and the platform rejects profit-seeking in this area. Smaller hospital sites in particular are to receive investment.

The AfD wants to keep hospitals all over Bavaria. There should be emergency care and maternity wards everywhere. Hospitals should get as much money as they need. Nobody should make a profit from basic care.

Under the platform, municipalities would continue to organize basic care. Doctors, not a hospital's business management, should decide on treatment. Investment is to go to smaller sites, to energy and cost efficiency, and to up-to-date patient care. The bodies that run public hospitals should no longer have to cover deficits. Outside management consultants are to be replaced by advisory offices in the ministry, and manager salaries are to be capped.

The AfD wants to replace the system of flat per-case payments (Fallpauschalen) with payment for each individual service. In the platform's view, the flat fees distort care and cause long waiting times. It also calls for more physician practice slots and a different route into medical school.

Today hospitals get a fixed amount for each case. The AfD wants to change that. Each single service should be paid for. There should also be more doctors' offices. Young people without top grades should be able to study medicine.

The platform calls for short distances and patient-focused care throughout Bavaria. Additional licensed practice slots for physicians are to be awarded depending on population trends. People with statutory health insurance should be able to see what the doctor bills for them. The allocation of places in medical school is to be reviewed so that suitable applicants without a 1.1 grade average also get a chance.

The AfD demands a legal and scientific review of the Bavarian state government's COVID measures, which it considers disproportionate and partly unconstitutional. Vaccinations with mRNA products are to be suspended. Excess mortality and vaccine injuries are to be investigated openly.

The AfD thinks the COVID rules in Bavaria were wrong. Courts and researchers should examine these rules. The AfD wants to stop mRNA vaccinations. There should be offices that help people with vaccine injuries.

The platform says the federal system failed during the pandemic. Neutral contact points are to be set up for people with vaccine injuries; they would assess the harm and offer therapies and support. In the future, a pandemic should only be declared on the basis of criteria that are scientifically grounded, consistent with the rule of law and transparent.

The AfD rejects any vaccine mandate and wants to repeal the measles vaccination requirement, which it says was introduced without sufficient medical evidence. Parents should decide for themselves whether to vaccinate their children. People who refuse a vaccination should not be put at a disadvantage.

The AfD does not want any duty to get vaccinated. The measles vaccine duty should end. Parents should decide for their own child. Nobody should be treated worse for refusing a vaccine.

Before any vaccine is approved, an independent body should carry out a controlled study. Recommendations by the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) should only be made by members who are demonstrably independent of the pharmaceutical industry. Citizens are to be informed about ingredients and risks, and vaccine injuries are to be reported reliably. The manufacturer, not the public, should be liable for vaccine injuries. The platform also insists on self-determination in organ donation and rejects an opt-out system.

The AfD supports digitalization in administration and service but rejects central storage of sensitive health data because it fears misuse. Bavaria should not back the European Health Data Space (EHDS). The platform also rejects a central vaccination registry.

The AfD wants to protect health data. Nobody should collect this data in one central place. That applies to Germany and to the EU. The AfD also does not want a central vaccination registry.

The platform sees large health databases as a risk for data misuse. It specifically rejects a vaccination registry linked to the tax ID or a citizen ID. Digitalization in health care should lead neither to more surveillance nor to a system of social points. The AfD also opposes transhumanist efforts.

The AfD considers the medical use of cannabis sensible and worth promoting but is critical of an uncontrolled release. Its stated reason is that the content of THC and other substances cannot be regulated. It also calls for a scientific reassessment of the plant.

The AfD wants to allow and support cannabis as medicine. It is critical of making cannabis freely available to everyone. Researchers should assess the plant and its dangers again. The EU should stay out of this question.

The platform calls for a neutral assessment of the dangers of cannabis. Criminal prosecution to date is to be reviewed for whether it is appropriate and effective. The AfD rejects any influence by the EU and the World Health Organization (WHO) on the question of legalization.

The AfD wants to relieve family caregivers with paid care leave that resembles parental leave and protects their job. The financial compensation should approach the pay of professional care staff. The platform also calls for a major care reform and a more attractive nursing profession.

Many people care for relatives at home. The AfD wants to give them care leave. During this time they get money and keep their job. The care profession should also get better.

The platform bases the demand on people's wish to live independently in familiar surroundings for as long as possible. As causes of the problems in care it names overburdened staff, poor working conditions, a shortage of skilled workers and demographic trends. Care should follow people's needs and not be a profit-driven system. The AfD wants to address the staff shortage with fundamental reforms.

The AfD wants the limits for cell phone radiation reviewed and pushed lower. Rules on toxic residues in the environment are also to become stricter. The platform justifies this with protecting health from influences that individuals cannot control.

The AfD wants stricter limits for cell phone radiation. It also wants stricter rules for toxic substances in the environment. The party says that people's health matters most. Independent researchers should study the risks.

The platform calls for revising and tightening laws and regulations on limits for toxic residues in the environment. Independent research programs are to assess health risks, for example from high-frequency cell phone radiation. In the AfD's view, electromagnetic fields can harm people, animals and plants even at low intensity. The party views any further increase in radiation exposure critically. Health education is also to start in kindergarten and school.