Survey: majority of Germans expect waste in health insurance

According to a survey, the latest increases in contributions at the beginning of the year burden many people – but at the same time assume that the contributions will increase soon. However, they also suspect that a good part of this will be wasted in the system.

At the beginning of the year, contributions in health and care insurance increased massively. According to a recent survey, the majority of Germans believe that the rates will soon go up. One reason: the contributions would not be used efficiently.

According to a recent survey, a large majority of Germans assume that the contributions in health and care insurance are used uneconomically and wasted. In a representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of the AOK Federal Association, which is available to the editorial network Germany (RND), 70 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that the contributions "are used too little efficiently and wasted…