Overview
- Coalition negotiators postponed the Bundestag decision to 9 July with Bundesrat planned for 10 July to allow extra hearings and talks before the summer break.
- Fiscal updates put the statutory health insurance shortfall for 2027 at €18.8 billion while the ministry's draft covers €16.3 billion, leaving at least €2.5 billion still to be identified.
- Negotiations have produced one concrete concession: higher mandatory rebates from drug makers for next year, but major items such as higher patient co-payments and limits on provider pay remain unresolved.
- More than 80 associations are scheduled to testify in a mammoth health-committee hearing that will include patient groups, sickness funds and provider bodies warning about longer waits and tougher burdens on insured people.
- The delay highlights sharp coalition friction over who should carry costs and raises the risk that disputed measures will be softened or shifted before the July votes, with direct effects on benefits, provider income and household expenses.