Federal Health Minister Nina Warken (CDU) gives the health insurance companies some of the blame for upcoming premium increases. She rejected criticism that she had not done enough to combat increases. “If the health insurance companies say that only others are to blame, they are making it too easy for themselves,” said the minister Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). “Everyone has responsibility, including the cash registers.”
She has closed the financial gap, said Warken. Now it will be seen how the health insurance companies deal with it. “As Minister of Health, I am not in charge of the additional contributions for individual health insurance companies. We cannot control the health insurance contributions as precisely as the contributions to other social insurances,” said Warken.
The federal government had promised several times that it would keep contributions stable. The health insurance companies described the savings package on Friday had passed the Federal Councilas too small. This primarily includes spending curbs at the clinics.
The goal, one Increase in additional contributions from January 1st However, the package did not reach Warken to prevent this. Large health insurance companies such as the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK; 12.3 million insured people) and DAK-Gesundheit (5.4 million insured people) announced on Friday that they would increase their contributions at the turn of the year.
The TK will increase the contribution from 2.45 percent to 2.69 percent and the DAK from 2.8 percent to 3.2 percent. The ministry had set the average additional contribution as a benchmark for health insurance decisions for 2026 at the current level of 2.9 percent.
