After ten hours of negotiations, the Christian Democrats (CDU) and social democrats (SPD) in power announced, on June 3 , the concluding of an agreement on health-care reform. This deal is supposed to durably improve the system of financing. Its provides for "structural savings", an increase in contributions for sickness insurance and a new gradual financing of children's insurance via the income tax. (Ref. 06681)
Higher contributions. “We initially will remove sources of wasting and opacity in the system of health by using a series of structural measures. This will allow to increase savings, which will become very important in the medium term “, explained, Monday, at dawn, Angela Merkel (CDU), without giving more details. But the chancellor added that these savings will not be enough to make up immediately for the deficit of public offices(GKV), which should reach approximately 7 billion euros in 2007 (
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