Berlin (ddp). In the third year following the entry into force of the red-green health Modernization Act, the most health insurance companies write apparently again red. As the reported Düsseldorf «Handelsblatt» (Tuesday Edition), the Ortskrankenkassen and the ten auxiliary completed 2006 Q1 with a deficit of approximately one billion euros. These funds assure the legally insured about 70 percent. When the auxiliary with the market leaders Barmer, DAK and technicians Krankenkasse (TK) exceeded expenditure therefore the revenue to 581 million euros. The 17 Ortskrankenkassen report a decrease of €444 million the newspaper according to. Reason for the negative development is the back surge of performance issues, it says further. You put for the intents to 4.6 per cent, in the Ortskrankenkassen 5.5 percent per Member. Main cost drivers were the hospital next to the medicines. At the same time the weak revenue performance of last year continued. The employees compensation fund and the workers compensation fund, the revenue base dwindled even slightly. In the second quarter the situation should relax again considerably, if the Minister of Finance shall transfer the first installment of Federal of 4.2 billion euros at the cash register. A decrease of one billion euros for all funds to the end of the year but still cannot be ruled out, said Udo Barske by the AOK Federal Association “Handelsblatt”.