Before the first meeting of the BUND-State Commission for a nursing reform, the expectations of associations are high. Bavaria has now the first country to demand significantly more federal funds for long -term care insurance.
“We urgently need a financial and structural reform of long-term care insurance”said Bavarian Minister of Health Judith Gerlach (CSU) of the “Augsburg Allgemeine”.
“I continue to advertise to finally finance non -insurance benefits from tax funds and not to push sustainable financing to the long bank by loans,” she emphasized.
In view of the rapidly increasing number of people in need of care, German nursing must, above all, become more efficient and efficient, said Gerlach. Bavaria will therefore penetrate comprehensive de-bureaucratization in long-term care insurance in the BUND-Länder Commission.
“We have to put the tasks and processes in long -term care insurance to the test and prioritize,” added the minister. “Nursing insurance law partially resembles a confused knot”she criticized. “It has to be solved so that care facilities can devote themselves more flexibly to people.”
This Monday afternoon, Federal Minister of Health Nina Warken (CDU) advises for the first time with her colleagues from the federal states. According to the coalition agreement, the BUND-Länder Commission should submit proposals for a “large care reform” before the end of the year.
Health insurers are throbbing on a long -term financing model
The statutory health insurance (GKV) also urged a permanent financing model before the meeting. “It is important that the planned reform really creates sustainable financial stabilization of long -term care insurance”said Oliver Blatt, CEO of the GKV top association and thus the top representative of the statutory health insurance companies, the “Rheinische Post”.
According to Blatt, the financing problem will not be solved with the temporary debt -financed support of long -term care insurance in this and next year. He offers the “support and cooperation” of the SHI. In advance, there was criticism of the commission’s composition, since it consists primarily of politicians and civil servants, but the nursing associations are missing.
The Diakonie Germany at the start of the Commission, called for “a real care reform”. With regard to the financing, the nursing service provider spoke in a statement on Monday For fully maintenance insurance with limited personal participation out of. The concrete design should take place in the Commission.
Non -insurance benefits – such as pension insurance contributions for caring relatives – should be financed from tax funds at short notice. Diakonie also calls for one Raising the contribution ceilingto strengthen the financial basis of long -term care insurance in the long term.
Employers see potential for billions of savings
Also the Federal Association of German Employers’ Associations (BDA) proposes a radical reform of long -term care insurance. In the first year of care in the first year of care, depending on the level of care, the need for care should not yet have any major benefits, according to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” in a still unpublished BDA paper. With such maternity leave leases Save about a tenth of the care expenditure,, more than six billion euros a year.
16 billion
euro If the BDA suggestions could be saved per year, the “FAZ” calculates.
According to the report, the employer’s paper lists further suggestions. In addition, count the Introduction of a “sustainability factor” similar to the pensionso that the insurance contributions do not increase excessively if the number and benefits of the person in need of care increase disproportionately.
The BDA also demands, non -insurance benefits from the federal budget and no longer from the articles too finance. The assumption of pension contributions for caring relatives could therefore relieve the health insurance companies by four billion euros a year.
They should also Finally, federal states “fully” follow their investment obligations for the nursing homesthe newspaper continues to quote from the paper. As a result, the own share of each resident of an average of 3000 euros is almost 500 euros a month.
These and other proposals from employers add up for the long -term care insurance funds according to calculations by the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” Savings of more than 16 billion euros a year. That would be 23 percent of total expenditure in 2024 of 68.2 billion euros. (EPD, AFP)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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