“Employees will have to pay more for their health insurance in 2026 without receiving better benefits. This is unacceptable.
Our healthcare system needs safe, fair and sustainable financing. This includes financing services for society as a whole from tax revenues. It is therefore right that many health insurance companies are now taking legal action.
The abolition of two-tier medicine and the introduction of citizens’ insurance financed by everyone for everyone would be further steps. And serious spending restraint is needed. Above all, the profit orientation in the healthcare system is driving up the costs of hospital treatment and medicines.
But politics continues to delay necessary reforms. Instead, permanent cuts are being brought into play for insured people. This creates uncertainty and results in people having to cover ever larger portions of their health costs themselves.”
Press release Hans Böckler Foundation: Health insurance companies pay up to almost a fifth of their money for non-insurance services – more tax financing is needed