In Case of Increases in Contributions: Linnemann Wants to Go Back to the Information Obligation for Health Insurance Companies
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Health Minister Carsten Linnemann wants to reinstate a deleted obligation to provide information in the event of increases in contributions from the statutory health insurance companies. ...
Health Minister Linnemann wants to undo the obligation to provide information to statutory health insurance companies about increases in contributions. Consumer protectors in particular had strongly criticised the abolition of the obligation.
In the end, the scheme will not have lasted for a year. In the interests of transparency of competition, Minister of Health Linnemann wants to collect again a determination of his predecessor. However, the cash registers have a request for this.
In the future, health insurance companies should actively inform their insured persons about higher contributions again. Health Minister Carsten Linnemann thus partially returns a controversial austerity measure of the coalition.
Health Minister Linnemann wants to strengthen confidence in the health insurance companies. They should inform members about increases in contributions by post or app in the future.
Health Minister Carsten Linnemann wants to recommit the statutory health insurance companies to inform insured persons about rising contributions. The rule had been deleted last time. Germany's top consumer protector now demands rapid implementation.
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