Public healthcare in Austria has declined shockingly fast over the covid times. Many doctors and nurses from hospitals filed official Gefährdungsanzeigen ("enda

Public healthcare in Austria has declined shockingly fast over the covid times. Many doctors and nurses from hospitals filed official Gefährdungsanzeigen ("endangerment reports") because their overwork and lack of personnel has been starting to endanger human life. Politicians do NOTHING. The only thing we hear from our minister of health is blips about Covid. Waiting for appointments with publicly funded doctors can now take several months, some doctors refuse adding further people to their wait lists. Many publicly funded positions for doctors stay vacant. Doctors are fleeing into private practices, where they earn significantly more money, have a more pleasant set of patients and less regulations. I had to wait 2 months for a heart MR at the only institute that does heart MRs in Vienna. Paying privately, I would have gotten it at the day and time of my choice. We are still getting our brain, heart and lung surgery or organ transplants for free as in 0€, but anything not absolutely necessary is declining, slowing down or starting to cost real money.