Modely financování dlouhodobé péče
Long-term care financing models

Summary/Abstract: The study analyses long-term care (LTC) financing systems in selected OECD countries and addresses the connection thereof with LTC, especially with respect to health care systems. The author concludes that the conservative (ChristianDemocratic) social model is not a promising model in this respect due, particularly, to the clear tendency towards the provision of universal health care. Experience shows that the liberal social model also presents problems due to trying to finance the LTC on the basis of a distinctive social assistance. The neoliberal social model declares a maximum liberalism and concurrently substantial state interventions, leading to a comparatively higher growth of health care and LTC care costs. Hence, the social democratic model seems to the author to provide the best foundation of the various systems available; the public politics declare here the civic right to a quality LTC, these politics do not fully exclude an economisation or even a partial privatization.

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