German health minister announces billions in cutbacks
https://www.dw.com/en/german-health-minister-announces-billions-in-cutbacks/a-76796338
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German health minister announces billions in cutbacks
https://www.dw.com/en/german-health-minister-announces-billions-in-cutbacks/a-76796338
Posted by Krankenitrate
29 Comments
Great news for the ultra rich. Now they can finally get their 5th yacht. Why don’t they cut even more benefits for us? so the poor billionaires can be happy
> and no more homeopathy
Yea, about time on that one.
“From 2028, spouses without their own source of income who are currently insured free of charge, will have pay a flat rate of 3.5% of their spouse’s income. This will be lower for low and middle-income earners and includes exemptions for those caring for children under seven, parents of children with disabilities, caregivers and pensioners.”
Dear Government,
all of you have to be fired for disresponsibility and outmost inability to be a goverment.
I legit opened the article with a very slight hope that it will be a cut on contributions, but of course not – it is cut on services we be getting from those already crazy-high contributions.
What the actual hell, how can this make Germany attractive to anyone who wants to come for a living and working, if you keep milking the people. First of all I am sure, I wont get any Rente and above all this I pay lot of taxes and now health insurance is more expensive every 2nd month
When the chairman of the Health Insurance Funds welcomes an announcement of the Health Minister, you can be sure the public will pay the bill.
Second opinion on hips replacement…yeah sure. How cynical the system here became, hard to believe.
Spoiler: this won’t solve the problem, and it’s just a temporary fix to avoid real reforms that could actually help. The fact is that the German population is aging, and retirees pay much less into the system while taking two to four times more than younger people, which is obviously understandable. So instead of thinking about how not to postpone the issue and make everything worse, they’ve decided to put the burden on the working class once again. I don’t know how they wanna attract people to come to Germany, but it looks less and less attractive for skilled people.
I love that we have to continue paying more and more only for the actual services to continue getting worse. Genuinely the most impolite and impractical medical care to cost ratio out there.
So we cannot go to the Hausarzt for “emergencies that are not emergencies” anymore?
Basically for spouses who can’t work have to pay 3.5% of their family income. Terrible news to all employees whose spouses don’t work.
Doing everything except inconveniencing the pensioners
We could have had Habeck…
It’s plunder but don’t worry – there is an endless supply of “tja” copium for the population to keep going.
3yrs immigrant here, have been paying 1000s every month to insurance + pension. But no access to doctors when in need. It’s an interesting system going on in here.
More cuts, no actual reform. Never break an already broken system.
I’m not giving the German society many more opportunities to demonstrate that they are still alive and start organising and show resistance against this attack to our well being. The streets must burn.
fuck you and goodby (not the OP, of course). I think Germany will be much better off without me. fuck these thieves. with 60k and canceling of Ehegattensplittung we computed and wouldn’t be able to afford the basic things even on top of the rent, other contributions and food. I simply can’t afford to live in Germany anymore. thank you, Nina w*rken. and goodbye. I will be much better off somewhere else. and fuck you
How about making government workers pay some tax instead of screwing us around -.-
What about making the public health insurance contribution mandatory for everyone, Including the high earners?! And then have the private insurance as an optional addition for everyone.
Just like any other country with a public health insurance system.
Is it really that hard?
But no, let’s leave the reach people alone and keep shitting on the poor workers.
Unbelievable
Not touching private insurance again, don’t we Merzelchen? *wink wink*
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Gonna be pretty interesting to see how much further the german health system can be cut back before it finally completely collapses into itself. Broke my foot 3 months ago and the doctor who was supposed to talk to me after surgery simply didn’t show up because he was too exhausted. While this is of course unprofessional it’s not like I don’t believe him but if this is already our current standard how much more abyssmal is it going to get now?
Well… I congratulate the CDU’s over 60 year old main voter base for once again voting against their own interests (as always).
As someone who earns above the threshold but stays public because I find the idea of private morally disgusting, this shit is disgusting. No more covering homeopathy is a big plus and spouses who dont work should also pay? Meh I am fine with that, it has exclusions and I dont see why the system should fund cultural choices.
However this is so clearly bad policy that simply band aids all the cost burden on the working class, we should be implementing stronger wealth taxes but CDU is as corrupt as any USA politician and too damn bribed to do the jobs right.
Is germany anti-youth?
These politicians will still get the best healthcare I assume
Real reform is needed to save money and bring in more. Everyone should pay for public health care – no opt outs for private. Just bring everyone into the public system – you can pay for private too if you want.
Secondly, get rid of the hundred of public insurance companies who all offer almost the same service. One is enough. So much administration and executive wages wasted on this.
Is it your spouse’s income before or after taxes?
I can bet my left and right nut that the second this goes into effect CDU will start talking about increasing the 3,5% rate because it is too little.
Such a monumentally bad way to say “fuck you we don’t give a shit about you” to young people. We’ll never benefit from the system we are paying into. Can’t wait to pay even more for insurance only to never get an appointment when you need one.