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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Autor principal: Eling, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-69432982020-01-08 Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan" Eling, Martin Int J Health Policy Manag Commentary 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. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2019-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6943298/ /pubmed/31902194 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.83 Text en © 2020 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
title Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
title_full Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
title_fullStr Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
title_full_unstemmed Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
title_short Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland: Comment on "Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan"
title_sort financing long-term care: some ideas from switzerland: comment on "financing long-term care: lessons from japan"
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url 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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