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    Germany Eyes €60 Billion in Potential Healthcare Cost Cuts

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    1. Shurae on

      That’s what happens when you vote for conservatives. Plenty of other places to cut or tax certain income groups higher but for them healthcare for the poor isn’t important.

    2. MAD_MrT on

      Germany doing their best to imitate the USA, which obviously is such a good example of a functioning nation

    3. AdministrativeTry406 on

      Tax oligarch? No
      Make healthcare worse for workers who already pay for it? Yes

    7. dirkt on

      > She views the commission’s nearly 500-page report as a “toolbox” that her ministry would analyse and choose from, she said.
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      > Among the biggest savings measures are a proposal to tie increases in fees and remuneration in the sector to insurers’ revenue, a move that could save more than €16bil by the end of the decade.
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      > Another initiative would expand rebates offered by manufacturers of patented pharmaceutical drugs in line with higher expenditures, which could produce cumulative savings of €5.2bil, the commission said.

    8. Flambouyant_sharting on

      So basically just get the insurance premium which is set to increase and provide bare minimum services, currently I am already paying max health insurance premium and for treatments I have to go to my country. Recently I visited a doc for some pain, they prescribed me with some BS which didn’t work, the next week when I visited them, I told the doc I also have pain in another area, and the doc said come back in 3 months because he won’t get any money from the insurance for diagnosing this or prescribing any treatment.

      I think its time to move to private, sometimes I need healthcare now for preventive measures, not when I am already on my deathbed

    9. MyLord_Robert on

      God I despise our current government. 0% interest in making things better, 100% interest in blaming the poorest of the poor for it

    10. JoAngel13 on

      It is mostly not on the back of the citizens, mostly the companies, the pharma industry will pay, or get less money.

      For example the pharmacy which makes a few trillion wins each year, will get a few billion less money around 10 billion less for their medication.

      Also in the same amount the Copay gets from 10€ up to 15€ no matter if the medicine costs 100€ or 20.000€, or for medicine that costs less than 100€, the Copay will raise from 5 up to 7,50 €

      Also for example we have the most knee and hip artificial surgeries in the world, because the surgery is easy to make and gets a good paycheck for the hospital. In the future every patient must go to a second doc, to get a second opinion, before the insurance will pay.

      Also more ambulatory surgeries, less days in the hospital.

      These few examples will save around 35 billion euros each year.

      On top it gives a few smaller save agreements, for example the husband, wife which is not working was in the family insurance for free, in the future they will bill them with a Copay about 200-250 € each month, people which care for kids or elders will not pay it. It is also a tool to get more people at work.

      Also in discussion a Sugar Tax on Softdrinks, a higher Tax on Alcohol and Cigarettes.

      But now, it is only a toolbox with 65 tools, now it is time for discussion, in law it will go, all or parts of it, till this summer.

    13. FloppyTomatoes on

      What are they doing with all the money? My insurance went up €160 a month from January, when you extrapolate that across everyone in the system, that is a lot of extra income. Where is it going?