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False: “The reason why health insurance contributions keep rising are the parties sitting here”

Summary by eufactcheck.eu
On February 20, 2025, three days before the federal election in Germany, Alice Weidel, party leader of the AfD, claimed during the “Wahl 2025 Schlussrunde” on ARD and ZDF that the reason for the steadily rising health insurance contributions are the millions of people who were allowed into the statutory health insurance system by political parties, despite never having paid into it. This statement is false. The claim refers to current asylum pol…
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eufactcheck.eu broke the news in on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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