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Nuisance Kassenbeiträge: Administration swallows huge sums

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Five mark administration stuck Munich – from 100 marks of health insurance premiums, 17 billion mark in total every year. The cost of dentures are half as high, so it is surprising that discussion in a discussion to savings in health care at all about the administrative costs each year. The technician insurance reached the lowest overhead of 184 marks per insured for a policy year, thanks to restructuring and rationalization. Would all other health insurance companies based on this example, each year approximately DM 4 billion could be saved, which is the annual loss of health insurance, so the Süddeutsche Zeitung. AOK sees little savings in sight, being her share of personnel costs to the administrative expenses at 76 percent and is thus heavily reducible. A real cost competition between the health insurance is hardly possible because a binding catalogue of services imposed by the State, as well as about the contributions and the remuneration of employees. (oli)

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