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Not in Germany, they don't. Barmer is a "gesetzliche Krankenkasse"/public insurance, which means most of their members' premiums are legally limited to a certai
by Cass 4y ago
Not in Germany, they don't. Barmer is a "gesetzliche Krankenkasse"/public insurance, which means most of their members' premiums are legally limited to a certain percentage of their members' income, and while they can and do raise their premiums occasionally, that's always a topic of political debate and needs a better justification than "a very small percentage of our members need expensive exo-skeletons now."
They have no ability to raise premiums on specific members with high healthcare costs.
- schleck8 4y agoThis must be wrong because US health insurance is evil /s
- random314 4y agoI was talking about US insurance where profit percentage is fixed, hence reducing bottomline reduces profits.
- GeckoEidechse 4y agoWell the article is a about German health insurance so without mentioning it explicitly it's not clear that you were talking about the US system :P
- defrost 4y agoThere's more to the world than the parochial ways of central north america so such locale specific observations deserve to be qualified for the benefit of the wider HN readership.