What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on health and care?

The AfD wants to restrict or entirely block access for children and adolescents to puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormone therapy. It describes these treatments as experimental and cites the German Medical Assembly (Deutscher Ärztetag).

Some children do not feel they belong to their sex. There are drugs that pause puberty. The AfD wants children and teenagers to get these drugs rarely or not at all. The same goes for hormones that change the body toward another sex.

The AfD wants to raise state investment in hospitals back to 180 million euros, the 2005 level. The platform argues that years of underfunding have left clinics with run-down buildings, outdated equipment and too few staff.

The AfD wants to spend more money on hospitals. The goal is 180 million euros again. That was the amount in 2005. The AfD says many clinics have old buildings and old equipment.

The AfD wants to stop the sale of municipal hospitals to private clinic corporations and give public owners priority. In the platform's view, privatization has harmed care and lowered standards.

The AfD wants to stop selling hospitals to private companies. Towns, counties and the state should come first. The AfD says the sales were a mistake. Some sold clinics should become public again.

The AfD wants to adapt the nationwide hospital reform and its service groups to conditions in Saxony-Anhalt so that small rural hospitals and emergency rooms are not lost. It accepts hospital restructuring only if care in the region does not get worse.

A new federal law changes the rules for hospitals. The AfD fears small rural clinics will lose important departments. It wants to adjust the rules for Saxony-Anhalt. Every region should have a hospital and an emergency room nearby.

The AfD supports regional health centers as a complement to office-based doctors in order to secure care across the state. It is critical of clinic corporations running such centers, arguing they are part of essential public services.

The AfD likes regional health centers. Doctors from many fields work together there. This should secure care across the state. Big clinic companies should preferably not run these centers.

The AfD wants emergency medical services to once again meet the Hilfsfrist, the required maximum response time, everywhere in the state. To do so, rescue stations are to be spread out more widely, air rescue expanded and volunteer first responders added to the emergency call system.

Ambulances should reach patients faster. The AfD wants more rescue stations in more places. It also wants more rescue helicopters. Volunteer first responders should help with emergency calls.

The AfD wants to push at the federal level to replace the DRG system, under which hospitals are paid a flat rate per case. It should give way to a payment model that rewards treatment outcomes and quality.

Hospitals today get a fixed amount for each treatment. This is called the DRG system. The AfD wants to replace it. The new system should reward good treatment. The AfD wants to push for this at the national level.

The AfD wants to shift health care toward prevention and put it on equal footing with curative treatment, rehabilitation and nursing care. It plans state prevention strategies, rules for meals in daycare centers and schools, and health education in class.

The AfD wants people to stay healthy in the first place. Prevention should matter as much as treatment. Children should get healthy food in daycare and school. Schools should teach how to live in a healthy way. Doctors should look more closely at children before they start school.

The AfD wants to address the doctor shortage with physicians trained in the state and to stop relying on doctors from abroad. Medical school capacity is to grow by at least 20 percent, and a scholarship program for future rural doctors is to be set up.

Saxony-Anhalt does not have enough doctors. The AfD wants to train more doctors at home. It no longer wants to depend on doctors from other countries. There should be more places to study medicine. Students who get a scholarship must later work in the countryside for ten years.

The AfD wants to set minimum staffing levels for all medical areas, cut documentation requirements and replace the generalist nursing training with separate tracks again. Nurses themselves would vote on whether to create a nursing chamber.

There are not enough nurses. The AfD wants to set a minimum number of nursing staff. Nurses should have less paperwork. There should again be separate training for elder care, hospital care and children's care. Nurses should decide for themselves whether they want a nursing chamber.

The AfD wants to strengthen care at home over nursing homes and improve the position of family caregivers, including through a state care allowance (Landespflegegeld) and tax relief. In the party's view, families should again take on more tasks now carried by the state.

The AfD wants more old people to be cared for at home. Families should get more money for this. The state should pay a care allowance. Care within the family should count more toward pensions. Costs in nursing homes should be limited.

The AfD wants outpatient palliative services and hospice places to be available in every region of Saxony-Anhalt. In addition, supported dying at home among family is to receive special support.

Very sick and dying people need special help. This is called palliative care. It eases pain when a cure is no longer possible. The AfD wants this care everywhere in the state. People should also be able to die at home with their family.

The AfD wants to set up a parliamentary inquiry committee on COVID policy to name those responsible and hold them accountable. The platform considers the measures of that time, and all penalties for violating them, disproportionate and therefore unjust.

The AfD says the COVID rules were unjust. In its view, the fines and penalties were unjust too. A committee in the state parliament should look into that time. It should say who was responsible. The AfD also wants a plan for dangerous diseases in the future.

The BSW wants specialized outpatient clinics at universities in Saxony-Anhalt. They are meant to improve care for people with post-COVID, post-vaccination syndrome and ME/CFS.

Some people stay sick for a long time after COVID or a vaccine. There should be special clinics for them. These should open at university hospitals in the state. People with ME/CFS should get help there too.

Saxony-Anhalt is to approve new international pandemic agreements only after thorough review. The BSW rejects handing over sovereign powers without oversight by parliaments.

Countries make treaties for future pandemics. Saxony-Anhalt should check such treaties carefully first. Parliaments should keep control. The state should not give up rights without that control.

The BSW wants the state to expand Pflegestützpunkte (care advice centers) and secure municipal short-term and day care. People who care for relatives are to receive targeted support so that caregiving does not lead to poverty.

The BSW wants more care advice centers. People get advice about care there. Day care and short-term care should also stay. People who care for relatives should get help and money. Caring should not make anyone poor.

The BSW wants to merge the state's university hospitals back into the universities alongside the medical faculties. Outsourced hospital subsidiaries should be brought back in-house or fully bound by collective wage agreements. Planned hospital construction should be financed on a sound basis.

University hospitals are legally separate from the universities today. The BSW wants to join them again. Hospital subsidiary companies should return to the hospitals. Or they should pay union-agreed wages. New hospital buildings should have secure funding.

The BSW wants a critical review of the trend toward requiring university degrees for professions such as nursing, physiotherapy or midwifery. The party does not want traditional vocational training routes to be pushed aside.

Some health jobs now more often need a university degree. Examples are nursing and midwifery. The BSW wants to review this. Regular job training should stay. Students often get no pay, but trainees do.

The BSW rejects subordinating civilian health care to military priorities in a crisis. The party criticizes that large sums are made available for rearmament while public social services face cuts.

The BSW does not want hospitals to be part of military plans. Even in a crisis, civilian patients should not come after the military. The party says there is much money for weapons. Health and social services get less. That should change.

The BSW calls for a Bürgerversicherung (citizens' insurance) that everyone pays into, to end differences between publicly and privately insured patients. Benefits should be standardized and health insurers merged. The party rejects using surcharges and co-payments to steer demand.

The BSW wants one health insurance for everyone. Everyone should pay into it. People who earn more should pay more. There should be fewer health insurers. All insurers should cover the same services.

The BSW wants a state law obliging hospitals and health facilities to pay collectively agreed wages, including in outsourced subsidiaries. The aim is for insurance contributions to go into care and working conditions rather than profits of private operators.

The BSW wants a new law for hospitals. All workers there should get union-agreed pay. This also applies to subsidiary companies. That should make these jobs more attractive again. Money from insured people should not leave as profit.

The BSW opposes hospital closures and further privatization in health care. Hospitals that are no longer worthwhile for private operators should promptly be taken back into public ownership.

The BSW does not want hospitals to close. It also wants no more privatization. Privatization means private companies take over public facilities. If a hospital no longer pays off for private owners, the state should take it over.

The BSW wants long-term care insurance that covers care costs in full and is paid for mostly out of tax revenue. Nursing home costs should not push people in need of care into poverty or overburden their relatives.

Care in a nursing home costs people a lot of their own money today. The BSW wants insurance that pays all care costs. The state should put in a lot of tax money. People who need care should not have to use up their savings automatically. Relatives should not pay too much either.

The BSW wants a digital portal showing free places in nursing homes and day care across the state. It also wants more specialized facilities, more independent advice and less red tape for applications.

The BSW wants a website for care. It shows free places in nursing homes and day care. There should be more homes for people with dementia. There should be more advice on applications. Applications should become easier.

The BSW wants to enlarge the public social-psychiatric service and create more therapy places because, in the party's view, demand for mental health support is rising sharply. Social institutions should get long-term funding instead of short project grants.

More and more people have mental health problems. The BSW wants more help for them. There should be more therapists and more therapy places. People should get an appointment faster. Social institutions should get lasting funding.

The BSW wants to make it more attractive for doctors to set up practice in rural areas and, where none can be found, to use municipal health centers and community nurses. Telemedicine and better-connected emergency services are to supplement care.

Rural areas lack doctors. The BSW wants to help doctors open a practice there. Where no doctor comes, towns should run their own health centers. Community nurses should visit old and sick people. Video appointments should also help.

The BSW wants the nationwide midwifery fee agreement revised so that freelance midwives receive the full fee for every woman they care for. The state is to counteract the pressure with its own funding programs and bonuses for setting up a practice. The aim is to preserve maternity care, especially in rural areas.

Midwives help women give birth. The BSW wants midwives to get full pay for every woman. The state should support midwives with its own money. That way, rural areas keep their birth care.

The CDU wants to secure medical care across the state by attracting more health professionals. It plans additional university places in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy and wants to make it easier to open or take over a practice.

The CDU wants enough doctors everywhere in the state. More people should be able to study medicine. The same goes for dentistry and pharmacy. People who want to open a doctor's office should get more help.

The CDU wants to turn hospital sites into specialized centers within regional care networks by 2030. Outpatient and inpatient treatment are to be closely linked, while basic and emergency care stays close to where people live.

The CDU wants to change hospitals by 2030. Each hospital should have clear specialties. Hospitals and doctors' offices should work together more closely. Emergency help should stay close to home.

The CDU wants to reorganize emergency care with a master plan for ground and air rescue. Remote emergency physicians are to be used statewide, and first aid is to be a regular part of school lessons by 2030.

The CDU wants to improve rescue services. There should be one big plan for ambulances and rescue helicopters. Emergency doctors should also help by video everywhere. Children should learn first aid at school.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for a far-reaching reform of long-term care insurance that caps out-of-pocket costs and protects owner-occupied homes. Within the state, family caregivers are to get more advice and relief.

Care should stay affordable. The CDU wants to change care insurance at the federal level. People who need care should only pay up to a limit themselves. Their own home should be protected. Family members who give care should get more help.

The CDU aims to introduce a Medi-Bus that serves as a mobile primary care practice for areas with a severe shortage of doctors. It is to run on a fixed schedule.

Rural areas often lack doctors. So the CDU wants to bring in a Medi-Bus. This is a doctor's office inside a bus. The bus should visit villages on a fixed schedule.

The CDU wants doctors' offices, hospitals and care homes to have strong digital infrastructure by 2030 and wants to expand telemedicine. University hospitals are to drive innovation, and production of medicines and medical products in the state is to grow.

The CDU wants better digital equipment in doctors' offices, hospitals and care homes by 2030. Doctors should treat people by video more often. University hospitals should do more research. More medicines should be made in the state.

The Greens want to keep the state's hospitals as places for health and emergency care. To do so, they back state-funded Sicherstellungszuschläge (supplements to keep essential hospitals running) and returning hospitals to municipal ownership. Obstetrics and pediatrics are to get special protection.

The Greens want to keep the hospitals in the state. The state should pay money for this. Towns and counties should be able to take hospitals back. Birth care and children's medicine should also stay secure.

The Greens want to fund municipal health centers and municipal Medizinische Versorgungszentren (MVZ, medical care centers) to secure care close to home. Care in rural and economically weak areas is thereby meant to exist independently of private investors.

The Greens want to fund health centers owned by towns and communities. Several doctors work together there. This way there should be doctors in the countryside too. Care should not depend on private investors.

The Greens want to guarantee training without school fees and with pay in all health and nursing professions. In addition, these professions are to become more academic, specialists are to be attracted to rural regions, and opt-out contracts at hospitals are to be eliminated.

The Greens want to win more skilled workers for health and nursing. Training should cost no school fees. Trainees should get paid. There should also be more specialist doctors in the countryside.

The Greens want to guarantee access to abortion throughout the state. State-owned hospitals are to perform abortions and teach them in training. At the federal level, the party is pushing to remove Section 218 from the criminal code.

The Greens want women everywhere in the state to be able to end a pregnancy. State hospitals should offer and teach this. Abortion should no longer be in the criminal code. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level.

The Greens want to markedly improve care for neurodivergent people, such as those with autism or ADHD, by building a statewide digital coordination network with a central registration portal. People are also to get faster access to psychotherapy, prevention and crisis help.

The Greens want to help people with autism or ADHD better. An online portal should make it easier to find diagnosis and therapy. People with mental health problems should also get help faster. For this there should be more therapy places.

The Greens want to modernize health care structures: with a state center for telemedicine and telecare, municipal needs planning for nursing care places, and a relaunch of the anonymous health voucher for people without insurance.

The Greens want to found a center for telemedicine. Telemedicine means treatment by phone or internet. Municipalities should plan how many care places are needed. People without health insurance should still be able to see a doctor.

The Greens want reliable funding for municipal addiction counseling centers and permanent state funding for the digital counseling service DigiSucht_LSA. Counseling is to focus more on online, media and gaming addiction.

The Greens want to pay reliably for addiction counseling centers. The online service DigiSucht_LSA should get lasting money from the state. Counseling should help more with addiction to the internet and video games.

The Greens call for a guaranteed right to a single room in residential care facilities. They justify this with residents' self-determination and personal rights.

The Greens want this: Everyone in a nursing home has a right to their own room. Shared rooms are only allowed if people want them. Everyone should be able to furnish their own room.

The Greens want to sharply reduce residents' out-of-pocket costs in nursing homes by having the state cover investment and training costs. They also back a solidarity-based care guarantee in the form of full long-term care insurance so that needing care does not lead to poverty.

A place in a nursing home costs a lot of money. The Greens want residents to pay less themselves. The state should cover part of the costs. An insurance plan should pay for all care costs.

The Greens want to create a self-governing body for nursing staff by law. It would shape professional and continuing-education rules itself and give nursing more weight in politics and self-administration.

The Greens want to create a body that speaks for nurses. Nurses should decide the rules for their job themselves. Politicians should listen to them more.

The Left wants hospitals funded according to need and quality and wants to replace per-case flat rates with a cost-covering system. It also calls for legally required, fully funded staffing levels for all hospital professions.

Today hospitals get money for each treatment case. The Left wants to change that. Hospitals should get the money they really need. A law should set how many staff are needed.

The Left wants to found a group of municipal hospitals with a permanent state stake and bring private hospitals back under public ownership. In the party's view, private operators run their hospitals for returns and close sites when returns fail to appear.

Many hospitals in the state belong to private companies. The Left wants to bring them back into public hands. Municipal hospitals should join together in one group. The state should take a share and provide money.

The Left wants an emergency room at every hospital site except psychiatric hospitals. Rescue and emergency room staff would also get mandatory training on rare diseases.

Every hospital should have an emergency room. Only psychiatric hospitals are left out. Rescue workers should learn more about rare diseases. Emergency ID cards should be respected the same way across the state.

The Left wants to improve pay and working conditions in health and nursing professions and bring wages up to the western German level. It backs the unions in pushing for collective agreements across the sector. The platform attributes staff overload to past austerity policies.

The Left wants better pay in hospitals and in care work. Wages should be as high as in western Germany. Collective agreements should apply to everyone. A collective agreement sets pay and working hours. Nursing training should also get better.

The Left wants to reduce prejudice in health care toward people with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, people with mental illness, and trans people. To that end, medical staff in particular are to be educated, and prevention, counseling and treatment services expanded.

Some sick people face prejudice at the doctor's office. The Left says this affects people with HIV, people with mental illness and trans people. The Left wants to change that. Doctors and nurses should be better informed. There should be more free tests and more counseling.

The Left calls for a state rescue fund of 300 million euros for hospitals. It is meant to make up for missing investment funding and prevent further insolvencies and closures. The state is to meet its obligation to finance hospital investments.

The Left wants the state to rescue hospitals with money. It wants 300 million euros for this. This should stop more hospitals from going bankrupt or closing. The state should also invest in hospitals regularly.

The Left wants outpatient and inpatient care to be planned together and linked, especially in rural areas. Hospitals are to become combined outpatient-inpatient centers and later health centers covering both sectors. That way they could also replace doctors' practices that disappear.

The Left wants to change hospitals in rural areas. They should also do the work of doctors' offices. This creates health centers for the region. Sick people get help there even when doctors' offices are missing. The state and towns should be able to become co-owners.

The Left wants to fund municipal care centers as central points of contact and secure accessible outpatient care in cities and rural areas alike. To counter the doctor shortage, it relies on additional rural-doctor quotas, more medical school places and broader powers for other health professions.

The Left wants enough doctors everywhere in the state. Towns should get their own health centers. More young people should be able to study medicine. There should be reserved places for future rural pediatricians and dentists. Rural pharmacies should also stay open.

The Left wants to prevent private capital companies, especially private equity firms, from buying into nursing facilities and medical care centers (MVZ) on a large scale. Instead, it wants to support MVZ that are run by their owners.

Some companies buy medical centers and nursing homes to make a profit. The Left wants to stop this. It wants to support medical centers owned by the doctors themselves. Big corporations should not come first.

The Left wants it to be mandatory that abortion services are available close to where people live. In addition, the topic is to become a fixed part of medical training.

Women should be able to end a pregnancy near where they live. The Left wants to make this a requirement. Future doctors should learn about it in training. That should be required too.

The Left calls for federal long-term care insurance that covers all care-related costs, so that out-of-pocket payments disappear. To pay for it, the income cap on contributions is to be scrapped and capital income is to be subject to contributions as well. The platform argues that care costs push many people into poverty.

Care in a nursing home costs people a lot of their own money. The Left wants to change that. Care insurance should pay all care costs. People with high incomes should pay in more for this. Contributions should also be due on income from investments.

The Left wants to introduce a state care allowance (Landespflegegeld) of at least 1,500 euros a year in Saxony-Anhalt. The state is also to cover the investment costs of nursing facilities in full. Nursing facilities are to be transferred to public or nonprofit ownership.

The Left wants state money for people who need care. It should be at least 1,500 euros a year. The state should also pay for building and equipping nursing homes. Nursing homes should no longer belong to private companies.

The Left wants to draw up a state strategy for digital health care. In the platform's view, digital services should ease the shortage of medical care in rural areas and the strain on the health system.

Rural areas often have too few doctors. So the Left wants more appointments by video or phone. At least every second family doctor's office should offer this. Clinics and doctors' offices should be able to share data better.

The SPD wants to keep existing hospitals running through lasting state investment funding. The hospital landscape is to be guided by quality, accessibility and efficiency rather than by the interests of capital.

The SPD wants to keep the hospitals in the state. The state should give money for this in the long run. If a private owner pulls out, counties or cities should be able to take over. The state should help with money. Doctors should also be able to help by video.

The SPD counts maternity care close to home as part of basic medical services. Existing maternity wards are to stay as long as quality is ensured, and there are to be more midwife-led delivery rooms.

Women should be able to give birth close to home. The SPD wants to keep the maternity wards. The quality has to be right. There should be more delivery rooms run by midwives.

The SPD wants to organize care so that people can live independently at home for as long as possible, and to push for a care reform in the Bundesrat. At the same time, care work is to be relieved of red tape.

Old and sick people should be able to live at home for a long time. The SPD wants to strengthen help in the neighborhood. The federal government should reform care. Care workers should have less paperwork. From age 65 there should be a voluntary health check.

The SPD wants training in all health professions to be free of school fees and to come with trainee pay. Together with other measures, this is meant to address the shortage of health workers.

People who train for a health job should not pay school fees. The SPD also wants trainees to get paid. That way more people should learn these jobs. The state also wants to keep more doctors in rural areas.

The SPD wants psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care to match demand because mental illness is on the rise. Prevention, early detection and the public health service are also to be strengthened.

More and more people have mental illnesses. The SPD wants more help and advice for them. Waiting times for treatment should get shorter. Prevention should also matter more, for example against cancer and addiction.