In 2024, the statutory health insurance companies expect a deficit again in 2023 after secured finances. The head of the GKV-Spitzenverband, Doris Pfeiffer, called on the German government to achieve sustainable stabilisation.
She said it would be appropriate for the situation to remove all dental care from the catalogue of services. The federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) rejected this. "Dental treatment remains a health insurance benefit," he wrote on Twitter.