Health costs capitation is not coming?

Health costs: capitation is not coming? The plans of the Federal Minister of Health Philipp Rösler (FDP) to introduce a head lump sum seem to have failed. CDU General Secretary Hermann Gröhe and Rösler emphasized this in the "Welt am Sonntag".

The plans of the Federal Minister of Health Philipp Rösler (FDP) to introduce a head lump sum seem to have failed. CDU General Secretary Hermann Gröhe and Rösler emphasized this in the „World on Sunday“ (Jerkin).According to the two, only a minor reorganization of the German health system is planned. For example, part of the earnings-dependent employee amount is to give way to a health premium. In this way, the coalition wants to separate health and work-related costs from one another, thus avoiding a possible increase in non-wage labor costs.

Supporters of this model argue that rising non-wage labor costs hinder the recovery of the labor market and endanger jobs. In addition, therefore, the employer's share should be frozen at a certain rate. A possible social compensation should be financed from tax revenue. In the future, the health insurance companies should be able to determine amounts for part of the employee share. Should a further measure in the form of competition promotion be implemented.

Gröhe and Rösler gave the concept of a capitation a definite rejection and even went on the offensive by accusing the SPD of unsettling the legally insured with information to the contrary in view of the state election on 9 May in North Rhine-Westphalia. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 10.04.2010)

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