Gesundheit: Wer soll die Pflege bezahlen? Wirtschaftsrat setzt auf Vermögen und mehr Eigenverantwortung
Die Pflegeversicherung steht finanziell unter Druck. Der Wirtschaftsrat der CDU fordert deshalb einen Kurswechsel: Wer genug Geld hat, soll im Pflegeheim künftig mehr selbst zahlen.
Pflege is expensive, and it's only going to get more costly. Already next year, the health ministry predicts a billion-euro shortfall for the nursing insurance. At the same time, the demand for care is rising. The key question is therefore where the necessary money will come from. The new federal health minister, Carsten Linnemann (CDU), must find a solution as soon as possible and launch a nursing reform within the year.
His predecessor Nina Warken (CDU), who has since moved on to the chancellor's office, left a draft for a Nursing Reform Act (NROG) in early June, which proposes cuts. However, this plan is facing resistance, partly from the CDU itself and its coalition partner. Now, the CDU's business council is entering the debate with proposals for nursing care.
In an exclusive six-page position paper for the Handelsblatt, the business association argues that citizens should take more responsibility for their own nursing costs, and that wealth should count more. Wolfgang Steiger, the council's general secretary, doesn't think Warken's plans go far enough. "The measures currently planned mainly aim at short-term stabilization of the nursing insurance finances and thus fall short," he told the Handelsblatt.
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