HEALTH INSURANCE WITH SHORT TERM
Health Minister Philipp Rösler (FDP) has confirmed the agreement of the black-yellow coalition on a financing strategy for public health insurance official. It has managed to balance the short-term deficit for 2011 of eleven billion €, while “to create the entry in a durable, solid financing of the health system,” said Roesler.
As expected, the contribution rate rises to 15.5 percent, that sentence, then, who had been subject to in January 2009 economic stimulus package adopted already. 14.6 percent are paid equally by employees and employers pay the rest of the health insurance customers themselves For employers, it should stick to it. Your pro-rata rate of 7.3 percent is frozen. This would decouple the health costs of labor, it is said in the statement of the Gesundheitsminsters.
Limit the additional contribution falls
Where the money comes from, is already clear. Spending increases are financed by additional contributions of the insured. It appears the parties expect that they climb further up. The Federal Insurance Office (BVA) is calculated always an average additional contribution. For 2014, the Authority’s projected increase to 16 €. The limit for the maximum of one percent of the salary raise for the additional contribution falls.A social equalization for the higher cost is also planned. If the average rate calculated by the BVA two percent on individual income of a member’s health insurance, then it is replaced by a social equalization. This means: In the forward-starting at 16 € it is a gross wage of 800 € is no longer social equalization.
Opposition reacts indignantly
The economy, expressed his disappointment over the new compromise and lamented the increased burden on employers. The German Trade Union complained against and the cost would be passed on to the insured on one side, while the employer would be frozen. This is “scandalous” and “extremely anti-social”.
The opposition certified Rösler a failure across the board. The minister is facing a “health policy shambles,” said SPD party chief Frank-Walter Steinmeier. From his big announcements has become nothing. Greens leader Claudia Roth put Rösler again near a resignation. He and the government had “no power for real structural reforms”.