Secure local services in villages and neighborhoods
The SPD wants to preserve basic local services: village and neighborhood shops, neighborhood aid groups, rural doctors, and postal and banking services. It justifies this with the goal of equal living conditions in urban and rural areas.
The SPD wants important services everywhere in Bavaria. These include small shops, doctors, post offices and banks. Groups where neighbors help each other should get more money. People in the countryside should live as well as people in cities.
Village and neighborhood shops are to receive more targeted funding, and neighborhood aid groups more support with less red tape. To improve rural medical care, the SPD wants to negotiate with the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung (the association of statutory health insurance physicians) and criticizes that current coverage figures look better than reality. In the Bundesrat and on the advisory board of the Federal Network Agency, it wants to push for keeping post offices, mailboxes and delivery quality at today's level and affordable. Together with banks and savings banks, it wants to stop branch closures. A minimum offering of cash, transfers and advice should be available everywhere, accessible and affordable.
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„Dienstleistungen wie die von Post und Banken dürfen nicht aus den Stadtvierteln und Dörfern verschwinden.“Translation: Services such as those of the post office and banks must not disappear from city neighborhoods and villages.
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- Economyleaning more state
More public funding and a guaranteed minimum of postal and banking services mean more public steering relative to the market.