Skin cancer in Saxony: Criticism of cuts to early detection

Schaper: Plans to cut screening are irresponsible

Schaper accused the federal government of now taking the opposite approach. She also sees a need for action in Saxony: "The state government has not yet declared an opinion on this." It should form one as quickly as possible and intervene. It is irresponsible that the federal government is considering restricting early skin cancer screening as part of its plans to cut health insurance. "This means that diseases are detected later and can be treated less effectively. This leads to just as many or even more deaths, all of which could have been avoided."

Prevention is the best and most cost-effective healthcare policy

Instead of including everyone in the financing of the healthcare system, services would be cut and care would deteriorate - "especially at the expense of those people who cannot pay for screening tests out of their own pocket", argued Schaper. It was good that a petition against cuts to skin cancer screening had already received hundreds of thousands of signatures: "Prevention is the best and most cost-effective healthcare policy."

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