Due to the federal government’s planned cuts, psychotherapists in Saxony are warning that practices will close and thousands of therapy hours will be lost. In the draft bill, which is intended to plug the funding gap in the statutory health insurance systems, psychotherapy is affected by an alarming number of cuts, criticized Winja Buss, a therapist from Leipzig and an active member of the Psychotherapy Action Alliance.
“The worst part is the budgeting. That’s going to be the death of us,” said Buss. According to the plans, psychotherapy—similar to medical care—would be capped by an overall budget, and services would no longer be funded without limit. In psychotherapy, this is completely nonsensical because services are defined down to the minute, Buss said.
