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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The Association of Substitute Funds in Hamburg has called for a nursing reform before the federal elections in the autumn due to a further increase in their own contributions.
“We are concerned about the development of our own shares.
It brings many people in need of care to the limit of their financial resilience, ”said the head of the vdek state representative in Hamburg, Kathrin Herbst, on Wednesday.
If nothing happened, “more and more people will be dependent on social assistance benefits”.
The co-payments would have to be permanently limited and the contribution rate stabilized before the federal election.
According to the association, residents of inpatient care facilities in Hamburg currently have to pay an average of 2080 euros per month - 106 euros more than in the previous year.
The main reasons are better wages for nurses and more staff in the facilities.
The Hanseatic city is therefore in the fifth most expensive place in a comparison of the federal states.
The most expensive is a care place with an average of 2460 euros per month in North Rhine-Westphalia, the cheapest with 1465 euros per month in Saxony-Anhalt.
The national average is 2068 euros.
According to its own information, the vdek represents the Techniker Krankenkasse, the Barmer, the DAK-Gesundheit, the KKH-Handelskrankenkasse, the hkk-Handelskrankenkasse and the HEK-Hanseatische Krankenkasse with a total of almost 940,000 insured persons in Hamburg.
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