N-TV had this update here in the AM, and it's a curious one. If you stand around and review the amount of medical cost being expanded for health care (by the insurance companies)....you have to figure there's a problem brewing over Covid in Germany.
Various health insurance companies in Germany are asking the new Health Minister (Lauterbach) not delay the plan for financial reforms (written into the coalition agreement to build the current government).
So here's the blunt news....for 2022, the government will have to fund another 30 billion Euro because of Covid cost.
Looking ahead at 2023? They are already talking about a surcharge of 10 billion Euro.
One aspect which you begin to notice after a while....there are dozens of ways that Covid has a cost factor to the average single German, from business support, to out-of-work individuals. No journalist ever sits down to add up the columns and comment over the massive general cost to a nation of 83-million people.
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