{"id":610277,"date":"2026-04-16T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610277\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:04:14","slug":"germany-unveils-cost-cutting-revamp-as-healthcare-spending-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610277\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Unveils Cost-Cutting Revamp as Healthcare Spending Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Germany\u2019s government presented a plan to overhaul its healthcare system and slash a financing deficit expected to balloon to \u20ac40 billion ($47.2 billion) by the end of the decade, placing Europe\u2019s No. 1 economy on firmer footing for growth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Health Minister Nina Warken, a conservative ally of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, said policy action such as reining in payments, drug prices and coverage for dependents will aim to save almost \u20ac12 billion from next year, with further measures falling on employers and the insured to cover a \u20ac15 billion projected gap for 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s government presented a plan to overhaul its healthcare system and slash a financing deficit expected to balloon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,79354,22054,1730,2057,88374,5717,3786,137,500,22606,10839,84,91504],"class_list":{"0":"post-610277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-berlin","11":"tag-conservative","12":"tag-drugs","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-federal-budget","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-health","18":"tag-healthcare","19":"tag-pharmaceutical","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-u-s-democrats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}