Nursing costs
Health insurance warns pre -contributions in care
When it comes to care, the development of financial needs knows only one direction: it grows. A large health insurance sees new billions of billions for contributors.
According to the health and care fund DAK health, the financial problems of long-term care insurance threaten to further tighten. According to the German press agency, the DAK calculations are heading for a deficit of 1.65 billion euros this year.
In 2026, the billion dollar hole will probably increase to 3.5 billion euros. Without new funds at the latest at the latest at the latest 2026, an increase in premium by at least 0.3 contributions would be inevitable, said DAK CEO Andreas Storm. For a health insurance member, for example with a child, 3.6 percent of the gross income is now due.
In its forecast, Hamburg insurance sees the nursing finances somewhat more critical than the GKV top association a few weeks ago. The association had made the forecast of a deficit of around half a billion euros public. In the course of the year, further long -term care funds will probably be dependent on short -term support to secure your liquidity, said leader Doris Pfeiffer in March.
Last year, long -term care insurance was sunk in the minus with 1.54 billion euros. To stabilize financial stabilization, the care contributions were increased by 0.2 percentage points at the beginning of the year.
Cash registers demand contribution damping
Storm called for steps to avoid increases in contributions. In his demands for structural reforms, the cash chief of the cash register sees a population majority determined in a survey: According to a new DAK nursing port, almost 80 percent of German citizens see a fundamental need for reform in geriatric care.
The health and long-term health insurance association had already requested that the federal government take over the pension insurance contributions for caring relatives and reimburse the long-term care funds from the Corona crisis. Accordingly, Storm was now also expressed.
7.6 billion people in need of care in Germany?
The new nursing report uses further study results to show what is important to care insurance: of around 5.6 million people who receive benefits from state long -term care insurance today, the number of well -groomed people in the next two decades should increase over a fifth. 2055 – such official forecasts – should be between 6.8 million and 7.6 million.
Economically Grimm calls for cuts in performance
The economy Veronika Grimm pleads in view of the financial problems for performance cuts and a higher deductible of the nursing patients. The contributions to long -term care insurance rose too much. “It will not be possible,” she said in a “picture” interview. This means that the design must probably be adjusted: “So fewer services that then have to be paid with realistic contributions”.
dpa
Source: Stern
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