Today, the care guarantee has a time limit of 90 days until the first visit to specialist care and 90 days until treatment.
“Waiting three months when you are sick is too long,” says the Moderate Party's healthcare policy spokesperson, Camilla Waltersson Grönvall.
Now M promises to tighten the limit to 30 days for the first visit and an additional 30 days for treatment.
A government inquiry recently proposed a 60-day limit between the initial assessment and planned care, such as surgery.
The Social Democrats (S) think that the M promise is “quite strong” and claim that the current M-led government has shown in recent years that it is not contributing enough state money.
“This does not feel entirely credible,” says healthcare policy spokesperson Lena Hallengren (S).
Available capacity
Waltersson Grönvall points out that the government's work to shorten healthcare queues has shown that there is free capacity around the country that can be used.
The Moderates therefore want to place clearer and tougher demands on the regions to help patients seek and receive care in other regions, at no extra cost to the patient, as soon as it appears that the time limit will not be met.
“It is time for the Health and Medical Services Act to no longer be a law that you can choose to follow. This legislation must be toughened,” says Waltersson Grönvall.
If the regions do not meet the requirements and deadlines, they should be subject to fines, which was also something the inquiry suggested.
“We will look at it, but we do not have a ready proposal,” says Waltersson Grönvall.
Denmark succeeded
She points out that Denmark has succeeded in shortening the time limits from 90 to 30 days and adds that M is also prepared to provide the necessary resources.
An important part of M's proposal is also the national healthcare agency that the government is building, so that patients themselves can seek care throughout the country.
The Moderates' partner parties, the Christian Democrats and the Sweden Democrats, believe that healthcare needs to be nationalized.
The Moderate Party leader, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, does not believe in a “gigantic reorganization”, but agrees that increased state responsibility is needed, for example in the form of legislation, financing and specialization.
“I think we are very much in agreement on all of this.”
