800 million euros grant: Do the health insurance companies still threaten to increase their contributions?

The health fund slips under a statutory reserve, the federal budget must now step in. The CDU minister wants to act. Still threatening increases in contributions?

A significant proportion of the deficits in statutory health insurances (GKVs) are due to the cross-financing of citizens' money recipients and therefore, above all, to the immigration of asylum seekers. The system is so fraught that the federal government now had to grant EUR 800 million – earlier than expected. According to a Handelsblatt report, the federal government must already support the statutory health insurance companies with EUR 800 …