Barmer boss head rate is unfair

Birgit Fischer, head of the health insurance Barmer GEK criticized the model of the capitation: It works unfair, because future cost increases are to be borne exclusively by the insured.

Now, the health insurance companies in ongoing debate about Rössler's planned headline health care. For example, Birgit Fischer, chairman of the Barmer GEK, criticized the planned capitation as "unfair" to the sick-insured. The capitation lead to a "bureaucracy and a reduction in transparency," Fischer told the newspaper "Weser-Kurier".

The "mixed model of head lump sum and staggered contribution rates" of Federal Health Minister Philipp Rösler (FDP) was "unfair", because all future cost increases would have to be paid by the insured alone, so Fischer. For employers, the contributions should be frozen. For many months, the introduction of capitation has been repeatedly suggested, plans circulated and plans were thrown back on board. Numerous social associations and social initiatives criticize the capitation as antisocial, especially since low-income people would have to fear a poorer health care. (Sb)

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