7 Amendments of Harald ETTL related to 2008/0142(COD)
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The existing disparities between health-policy objectives and objectives of the internal market in services makes it necessary, where a conflict arises, always to assign priority to health-policy objectives for compelling reasons relating to the public interest (i.e. public health, social-policy objectives, preservation of the financial balance of the social security system, etc.).
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Subject to the provisions of this Directive, in particular Articles 7, 8 and 9, the Member State of affiliation shall ensure that insured persons travelling to another Member State with the purpose of receiving healthcare there or seeking to receive healthcare provided in another Member State, will not be prevented from receiving healthcare provided in another Member State where the treatment in question is among the benefits provided for by the legislation of the Member State of affiliation to which the insured person is entitled. The competent institution of the Member State of affiliation shall reimburse the costs to the insured person, which would have been paid for by its statutory social securityhealth system had the same or similar healthcare been provided in its territory. In any event, it is for the Member State of affiliation to determine the healthcare that is paid for regardless of where it is provided.
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The costs of healthcare provided in another Member State shall be reimbursed by the competent institution of the Member State of affiliation in accordance with the provisions of this Directive up to the level of costs that would have been assumed had the same or similar healthcare been provided in the Member State of affiliation, without exceeding the actual costs of healthcare received.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall have a mechanism for calculation of costs that are to be reimbursed to the insured person by thehis statutory social securityhealth system for healthcare provided in another Member State. This mechanism shall be based on objective, non-discriminatory criteria known in advance and the costs reimbursed according to this mechanism shall be not less than what would have been assumed had the same or similar healthcare been provided in the territory of the Member State of affiliation.
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 a (new)
Article 8 a (new)
Article 8a Rejection of hospital treatments and special treatments Member States of treatment may permit individual health service providers to refuse hospital treatment and special treatment for patients who go to another Member State to seek treatment if this would be detrimental to other patients with similar health needs, for example because it increased waiting time for treatment.
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The national contact point in the Member State of treatment shall register all activities in the Member State of treatment pursuant to Articles 6, 7, 8, 9 and 15 and notify the competent authorities of the Member State of treatment and the national contact point of the Member State of affiliation thereof. Health service providers shall supply the necessary information to the national contact point of their Member State as soon as they receive it.
Amendment 196 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Member State of affiliation shall be obliged to reimburse the costs of a medical prescription from another Member State only if these costs would also be borne in the Member State of affiliation (e.g. in accordance with a reimbursement code or a positive list).