AOK does not want to make additional contributions

AOK Nordost and Saxony-Anhalt do not want to raise additional fees until the end of 2012

28/09/2011

The Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse AOK in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin does not want to charge any additional contributions from its 1.8 million health insurants in the coming year. The board of directors of the fund decided this after a constituent meeting.

The AOK insured in Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg can look forward to. The AOK Nordost plans no additional contribution for the next year 2012. This is not charged through the regular membership fees, but through an additional contribution. While the monthly insurance contribution to health insurance is granted by the legislature, the health insurances can levy additional contributions of indeterminate amount if they can no longer cope with the allocations from the health fund.

According to the Minister of Health of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Manuela Schwesig (SPD) it can be seen that the merger of the AOK-Kassen produces first successes. "The new health insurance AOK Nordost is so well positioned and growing in the market“, said the minister. Therefore, an additional balance on the part of the insured is unnecessary. „The merger has positive effects“. A special thanks to the employees of the AOK Northeast. „These had ensured that the merger went smoothly“.

Health insurance AOK Saxony-Anhalt without additional contribution
The AOK Saxony-Anhalt also announced that it did not want to raise additional contributions until 2013. Ralf Dralle, new board of the health insurance said, the AOK is currently very well financially. „We are characterized by a high degree of financial stability and growth in the number of insured persons ", said the chief of the cash register. Since the beginning of the year, some 30,000 people have joined the AOK-Sachsen Anhalt For this year, the cash management board expects a surplus in the annual balance sheet Now you want to pass on to the insured.

AOK Sachsen-Anhalt has a country-specific market share of over 34 percent. With this strength, the fund would continue to work for improvements in medical care. However, the political conditions for health insurance patients are increasingly worsening. „The people of Saxony-Anhalt benefit from the health fund, but there is an urgent need to eliminate a method error in the financing system“, said Dralle. In the current form, the elderly and the seriously ill are the most discriminated against. Only a portion of the costs incurred in the event of illness are taken over in the case of older and chronically ill people. Especially the people in East Germany are disadvantaged, because here the proportion of older patients in the national comparison is particularly high.

If a health insurance company raises an additional contribution, the insured persons have the option of changing health insurance within a statutory period. Health insurance companies, which so far had collected an additional premium of an average of eight euros per month, had to struggle with heavy membership losses. Especially young and healthy people changed the health insurance in the past year due to additional contributions. (Sb)

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