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Intensive care unit: Corona tests and vaccinations cost money
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After a record amount in German health expenditure in the first corona year 2020, the Federal Statistical Office expects a further increase in 2021.
Among other things, the costs for corona tests and vaccinations are estimated to be responsible for the fact that the costs climbed to around 466 billion euros.
That would be a good 25 billion euros or 5.7 percent more than in the previous year, as the Federal Office announced on Thursday in Wiesbaden.
In 2020, healthcare spending was reported to have risen 6.5 percent year-on-year to a peak of €440.6 billion.
This corresponds to 5298 euros per inhabitant.
The statisticians put the share of health expenditure in the gross domestic product (GDP) for 2020 at 13.1 percent - an increase of 1.2 percentage points compared to the previous year.
The Federal Office announced that the corona pandemic had a major impact on health expenditure in 2020.
They would have contributed significantly to the fact that the public budgets had to pay 30.7 billion euros.
That is 73.4 percent more than in the previous year.
Their share of total health expenditure was 7.0 percent, after 4.3 percent in 2019, as the Federal Office announced.
With a contribution of almost 55 percent, the statutory health insurance was the largest payer in the health care system according to the statistics.
Long-term care insurance (13 percent) and private health insurance (11 percent) follow at a distance.
Private households and non-profit organizations shouldered 8 percent of the costs, the remaining 6 percent were shared between other organizations.
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