Reuters Health News Summary
The plan would tie insurer costs to income, add a sugar tax from 2028 and shift about €12 billion in unemployment health costs to the federal government.
- On Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced his Cabinet agreed on a "historic" health care draft law addressing spiraling deficits in Germany's state health insurance system, projected to reach $40.4 billion by 2030.
- Following a commission of experts presenting 66 money-saving proposals last month, Germany's state health insurers face deficits increasing from $15.3 billion in 2027 to $40.4 billion by 2030, driving urgent reform efforts.
- New measures include a 2.5% premium for non-working partners and a sugar tax from 2028, while "cannabis flowers" and homeopathic remedies will be excluded from coverage under the draft law.
- Klaus Reinhardt, president of the German Medical Association, described the package as a "series of savings measures" placing burdens "very one-sidedly" on the insured, while Verena Bentele, president of the VdK, labeled it an "austerity program."
- The package must now pass through the German Bundestag, where it faces intense parliamentary scrutiny, while Chancellor Merz defends the deal as proof his coalition is "capable of compromise" despite historically low approval ratings.
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