
In turn, tax money to be used to demand private supplementary insurance for long-term care. According to information from the dpa news agency, this was agreed in berlin by federal finance minister wolfgang schauble (CDU) and federal health minister daniel bahr (FDP). The future of the practice fee remains open.
Earlier, a spokeswoman for the federal ministry of finance had said that there was agreement on the basic values of the federal budget. No details were given on friday. The finance and health ministries have been negotiating for weeks about the health fund’s reserves.
The debate was fueled by the fact that the statutory health insurance system (SHI) – i.E., the health insurance funds and their money collection agency, the health fund – currently has a financial cushion of 19.5 billion euros. 9.5 billion of this will go to the fund. More than half of this money is committed. The government can dispose of around 4.4 billion euros from the fund reserve.