Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”
<span class="fontstyle0">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 financin...
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doaj-be10861682dd474ba295a5d5afb30aba2020-11-25T01:25:58ZengKerman University of Medical SciencesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management2322-59392322-59392020-01-0191394110.15171/ijhpm.2019.833670Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”Martin Eling0Institute of Insurance Economics, School of Finance, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland<span class="fontstyle0">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.</span>https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3670_8b289a1e05898d7b3563e25175af52ca.pdflong-term caresocial securityinsuranceswitzerland |
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Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan” |
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Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan” |
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Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan” |
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Financing Long-term Care: Some Ideas From Switzerland; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan” |
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financing long-term care: some ideas from switzerland; comment on “financing long-term care: lessons from japan” |
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences |
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International Journal of Health Policy and Management |
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<span class="fontstyle0">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.</span> |
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