Over the years, a total of up to 70 million euros could have flowed from the health system to Uniqa / Raika
Vienna (OTS / SK) – The Österreichische Gesundheitskasse has rented around 30,000 m² of space from Uniqa Versicherung. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober spreads the cloak of silence about the exact rental price in a parliamentary response to a question. SPÖ member of the National Council Rudolf Silvan: “Assuming a rental price customary in the area of around 10 euros per m² per month, then the ÖGK pays more than 3.5 million from the contributions that employees deduct from their gross income every month Euro in rental costs per year to Uniqa Insurance – rent including cold, of course! “****
The costs that this incurs for those liable for contributions are enormous. In detail, Uniqa Versicherung rents a little more than 30,000 m² to the Austrian health insurance company. Some of these Uniqa rental deals were threaded under the then black-and-blue government of Schüssel by EX Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallath. Silvan is angry: “The employees’ contributions are not there to serve private insurance companies and banks!”
The Lower Austrian Regional Health Insurance Fund, which has now been merged with the other regional health insurance funds to form the Austrian Health Insurance Fund, actually wanted to build a building on their own in the early 2000s. “Over the years, this project would have saved Austria’s insured persons several million euros”, Silvan is certain. In Lower Austria alone, the NÖGKK / ÖGK paid around 50 million euros in rental costs to Uniqa and the previous owner of the building, Raiffeisen, over the past 20 years.
Throughout Austria, these amounts may add up to 70 million euros, Silvan calculates. Silvan: “For this reason, I call on Health Minister Anschober again to put all these figures on the table in detail!” For this purpose, the Lower Austrian SPÖ member will again submit a parliamentary question to the Health Minister and disclose all relevant data on the rumored Demand cold rents. “(Closing) up / sd
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