€2.2 Billion have done in the first year after the introduction of the health care reform Berlin (AP) — insured of the statutory health insurance co-payments for drugs. The Federal Association of Betriebskrankenkassen declared that on Thursday in Berlin. He confirmed that information the «Image» – newspaper. In the year before, the sum of the constraints on 1.8 have billion located because not prescription drugs were paid partly from coffers. At around 70 million legally insured, the costs to have amount purely arithmetically something more than 31 euros per capita. A total expenditure of funds for medicines 2004 decreased by 10.5% to 20.4 billion. With a view to the future funding of the German health system, the Institute for economic and Social Affairs (how) spoke out against the models of a health bonus and a citizen insurance discussed so far out. The problem of increasing contribution rates is not solved with two models. Also, there is a direct correlation between expenditure and employment, is questionable. The real problem is according to how that the health premium favored by the Union and the of red-green coalition discussed citizen insurance assume an erosion of the income and thus «fix at the wrong end. The contributions were primarily been driven by the level of the spending. «The legal health insurance has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.» The unpleasant way of cost containment must be followed consistently continue.