The head of DAK-Gesundheit, Andreas Strom, has issued a stark warning about the consequences of the recent coalition agreement between Germany’s CDU/CSU and SPD. He predicts a significant rise in statutory health insurance contributions, projecting that by 2026, employees could see health insurance costs rise along with long-term care contributions. The coalition has not addressed the urgent funding needs of the insurance funds, leading to potential increases that could burden workers and threaten economic stability. Previous proposals aimed at stabilizing these costs were omitted from the final agreement, raising concerns about future financial implications.
According to Storm, statutory health insurance is facing another increase of at least half a percent point at the end of the year.
In conjunction with rising long-term care insurance contributions, we are then moving towards total social security contributions of 43 percent.
All concrete measures mentioned in the drafts that could have ensured the goal of stable social security contributions were deleted from the final coalition agreement.
This is not only an imposition on insured employees, pensioners, and employers, it is also poison for the economy.
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