Health Savings Package - Warken Announces Further Savings From Health Insurance Companies
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Nina Warken shows a mixture of defense and change-will shortly before the first Bundestag debate on her care reform. In the statutory health insurance she suggests new savings.
Federal Health Minister Warken has announced further savings due to a new financing gap with the statutory health insurance companies.
The health insurance companies spent 3.5 billion euros more than expected in the first quarter. To compensate for this, the health insurance reform is expected to be more extensive than planned.
Because the financial situation of the funds is in the foreseeable future even worse than expected, the health ministers want to save more money than previously thought. Tomorrow the first draft goes to the Bundestag.
The expenditures of the statutory funds were higher than expected in the first three months. As a result, the pressure to save is increasing, the additional contributions should not rise any further. Meanwhile, it is still unclear where the additional billions should come from.
With massive cuts a billion-hole is to be stuffed. Health minister Nina Warken (CDU) has now also presented her plans for the care reform a few weeks after the health insurance reform. Currently, the scarcely measured care insurance registers a deficit of 7.5 billion euros per year that could rise to 15 billion euros in the coming years. The law is therefore intended to provide for severe savings. Particularly affected are the needy and all thei…
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