"Krone" analysis

How politicians manipulate care and health

SPÖ leader Babler criticizes the government for the sale of Vamed - which, however, already happened under his predecessor Franz Vranitzky in 1996 ...(Bild: Krone KREATIV/APA/ROLAND SCHLAGER Peter Tomschi)

A reform is not yet a reform, a sell-out is not yet a sell-out: what is suitable for the election campaign and what is not. 

Top politicians and managers are sometimes similar in their behavior. If an agreement is reached on a compromise or plan and this is announced externally (politics) or internally (business), it is already considered a success and a done deal. But the difficult part comes first: the tough implementation. In Austria, for example, this applies to countless "reforms", i.e. new tax money distribution keys between the federal and state governments, especially in the healthcare sector, where billions - and human lives - are at stake.