Healthcare: Health insurance companies with half-year 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 insurers are writing black figures. But there are special reasons for this.
Germany's statutory health insurance funds recorded 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. Despite this, Health Minister Carsten Linnemann warned that the results did not justify a decrease in concern, 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 expenses increasing by 7.4 percent.
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