Care: Health insurance companies with half-yearly surplus - "No all-clear"
A savings law will soon take effect, which is intended to bring ever-increasing healthcare spending under control. Currently, the health insurance funds are writing black numbers. But there are special reasons for this.
Germany's statutory health insurance funds reported a surplus of 2.6 billion euros in the first half of the year, according to the Federal Ministry of Health in Berlin. The surplus was driven by contribution increases at the start of the year and was primarily used to replenish reserves, which now stand at 7.5 billion euros. Health Minister Carsten Linnemann said the results did not justify a decrease in caution, citing rapidly rising expenditure that outpaced revenue growth.
The 93 insurance funds had revenues of 188.9 billion euros and expenditures of 186.3 billion euros from January to June, with medical expenditure increasing by 7.4 percent.
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