German Health Minister Philipp Roesler plans to make higher earners bear the brunt of a health-
care revamp to go into effect next year, Sueddeutsche Zeitung
reported, without saying where it got the information.
To help plug a 10 billion-euro ($12.4 billion) funding gap
in the public health-care system in 2011, Free Democrat Roesler
plans to levy monthly per-capita premiums of as much as 30 euros
for every insured person, the newspaper said.
Workers earning more than 3,750 euros per month will have
to contribute a bigger share of their income to the health
insurance system to limit the burden for low-income earners, the
newspaper said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel supports the plan as long as it
wins the consent of Horst Seehofer, head of the Christian Social
Union, the smallest of three parties in the governing coalition,
the newspaper said. Roesler and Seehofer meet in Munich on May
31 to discuss the matter, Sueddeutsche said.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Rainer Buergin in Berlin at
rbuergin1@bloomberg.net
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