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Susanna Kochskämper / Jochen Pimpertz IW-Trends No. 1 25. March 2015 What Redistribution Effects are Covered by the Solidarity Principle in the Statutory Health Insurance System?
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What Redistribution Effects are Covered by the Solidarity Principle in the Statutory Health Insurance System?
Susanna Kochskämper / Jochen Pimpertz IW-Trends No. 1 25. March 2015

What Redistribution Effects are Covered by the Solidarity Principle in the Statutory Health Insurance System?

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Demographic transformation is taking to absurd lengths the risk equalisation between young and old incorporated into Germany’s statutory health insurance system. Despite increasing average expenditure on benefits, the solidarity principle is being upheld for a cross-section of the insured in any given period. In the long term, however, each succeeding cohort is having to bear a heavier burden. A similar situation applies to the risk equalisation between the productive and the less productive insured. To ensure that inter- and intragenerational solidarity is maintained as well, it is essential that the pay-as-you-go system is combined with an appropriate form of capital funding.

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What Redistribution Effects are Covered by the Solidarity Principle in the Statutory Health Insurance System?
Susanna Kochskämper / Jochen Pimpertz IW-Trends No. 1 25. March 2015

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