Reba,
Add one more... is correct your misleading information. I check with my co-worker about this today. She support my claim against those misleading information you made here and told me that she heard the rumor about Healthcare 2009 so I visit google until I found right one because I prefer to get information from the people from German Government, not any medias from different countries who dispute/misleading the information about other countries.
Healthcare insurance will increase in begin of January 2009 due aging population (pensioners) which mean is they don't have to pay out of their pension money but we for them.
Read those link from German Federal Minister of Health Ulla Schmidt's speech
2009: the new Federal Health Fund
Die Gesundheitsreform - Innovative Healthcare Policy in the United States and Germany
You can read all when it's not just 2009: the new Federal Health Fund in those link.
Like what I said before that the healthcare and other social insurances alway changes but still improve.