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标题：Vorschlag zur Reform der Pflegeversicherung – Funktioniert die Soziale Marktwirtschaft noch?
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作者：Stefan Fetzer ; Christian Hagist
期刊名称：Wirtschaftsdienst
印刷版ISSN：0043-6275
电子版ISSN：1613-978X
出版年度：2021
卷号：101
期号：2
页码：134-137
DOI：10.1007/s10273-021-2855-z
语种：English
出版社：Springer
摘要：In mid-November 2020 Germany’s health minister Jens Spahn presented a new reform proposal for Germany’s long-term care insurance. The cornerstones of this proposal are a cap on cost-sharing of patients in nursing homes of 700 euro per month, higher revenues financed by taxes instead of social contributions, a cost-coverage of states concerning investments in nursing homes and a slight increase of capital funding in statutory long-term care insurance. We discuss these reform proposals from both a distributional as well as an institutional perspective. Although we share the problem assessment, we argue that reforms should rely more on co-payments and new insurance solutions.