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Health Minister Protect health insurance against financial overload
The increases in health insurance contributions will probably not be stopped in the future. Experts expect increasing contributions. Bavaria's Minister of Health, Melanie Huml, has now declared that the contributors must be protected from financial overload. Necessary is a sustainable financing strategy of the legal funds.
Further rising cash contributions expected
The cost of health insurance rises and rises. After experts reported a few months ago that the additional contribution in the coming year could increase to over 50 euros, Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe has indeed spoken of alarmism, but he pointed out in the past, that there is a good supply "not for free" and that it's about making the healthcare system financially sustainable. That the statutory health insurance funds should receive a billion-cash injection from the health fund, but is not considered sustainable.
Bavaria's Health Minister Melanie Huml wants to protect the statutory health insurance against financial overload. The health insurance companies need a sustainable financing strategy. (Image: Stock Photos-MG / fotolia.com) Sustainable financing strategy for statutory health insurance
Now, Bavaria's Health Minister Melanie Huml has pushed for a sustainable financing strategy for statutory health insurance (SHI). "We have to protect the contributors from financial overload. It is gratifying that the average additional contribution rate in statutory health insurance remains stable for the next year. However, it must not be overlooked that part of the revenue in 2017 will come from the liquidity reserve of the health fund, "said the politician, according to a statement from the ministry.
Contribution fees are used for all-society tasks
Huml criticized: "This is not sustainable. Above all, contributions are used here for societal tasks. It is now particularly important to raise and to stimulate the federal subsidy on statutory health insurance. The budget rehabilitation of the federal government at the expense of the solidarity community of the GKV must come to an end. "
"Benefits of the statutory health insurance, which are actually all-social tasks, must be financed sufficiently from tax funds. The federal subsidy to the GKV must refinance the non-insurance benefits sufficiently. That is not the case at the moment, "said the Minister of Health.
Compensate gaps permanently and cost-effectively
The Federal Ministry of Health had already estimated the cost of insurance-related services at over € 30 billion in 2013. In 2016, however, the federal subsidy will only amount to 14 billion euros - and will be fixed from 2017 to 14.5 billion euros annually.
Bavaria's health minister again demanded that funding gaps such as the federal government's contribution to the unemployment benefits for recipients of unemployment benefit not only be remedied in the short term by reaching the reserves of the health fund. "That's not the way to go. In the future, such gaps must be compensated permanently and cost-covering by the federal government! ", Said Huml. (Ad)