Health insurance: Minister of Health Lauterbach is planning significantly higher contributions
Created: 05/13/2022, 10:20 am
By: Lisa Mayerhofer
According to a report, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to increase the additional contribution to statutory health insurance.
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According to the report, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to increase the additional contribution to statutory health insurance.
Berlin – The additional contribution to statutory health insurance is to increase “moderately” from 2023.
This is reported by the
Bild
newspaper, citing a letter from the Ministry of Health.
This is one of several measures to close the financial gap in the statutory health insurance companies (GKV).
Lauterbach: Additional contribution to the statutory health insurance should increase
According to the Central Association of GKV, the health insurance companies will be short of 17 billion euros for next year, reports the
Tagesschau
.
The grand coalition has already provided a subsidy of 28.5 billion euros for the coffers for this year in order to prevent an increase in the additional contribution.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) now wants to intervene to close the funding gap.
Lauterbach already indicated in several reports in March that the contributions will probably increase in this context.
Lauterbach wants to announce the exact increase at the end of the month
At the end of the month, Lauterbach wants to give specific figures for the planned increase in contributions.
The
image
calculates that a deficit of 16 billion euros (as announced by the central association of the GKV) corresponds to an increase of one percentage point in the health insurance contribution.
According to the newspaper, it would cost normal earners 156 euros more and top earners 312 euros more net per year.
Lauterbach not only wants to increase the contributions as part of the restructuring of the cash register finances, but also improve patient care.
In March he told the
Tagesspiegel
that despite the financial gap there would be no cuts in medical care: "I've made a decision: I won't cut anything."