When they retire, many working people often hear for the first time about the following hurdle that needs to be cleared: Only those who were at least 90 percent insured with a statutory health insurance company or were co-insured there in the second half of their working life can also get into the cheap compulsory insurance in retirement, to the KVdR. This is not a separate health insurance fund, but an insurance status that all statutory health insurance companies offer.
The KVdR is a fine thing for pensioners. Whoever gets in saves a lot of money. If you don't make it, your only option in old age is voluntary or private insurance. But there is a legal loophole that is largely unknown. The health insurance companies do not offer any improvements automatically and of their own accord. So you have to become active yourself – like this.