Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"

Ikegami reviews the implementation of mandatory long-term care insurance systems in Germany and Japan, which are organized as pay-as-you-go systems. I propose to go one step further and implement a multi-pillar, mandatory and voluntary long-term care financing system, which combines pay-as-you-go wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Eling, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6943298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31902194
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.83
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Sumario:Ikegami reviews the implementation of mandatory long-term care insurance systems in Germany and Japan, which are organized as pay-as-you-go systems. I propose to go one step further and implement a multi-pillar, mandatory and voluntary long-term care financing system, which combines pay-as-you-go with capital-funded elements. The proposal is based on the observation that Switzerland has implemented a three-pillar system for financing retirement provisions that can be adapted to finance long-term care in a fair and sustainable way.

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