The coalition is planning a number of improvements to care. However, Health Minister Spahn is still unclear how these should be financed in the long term.
Quality maintenance has its price. Health Minister Jens Spahn is on the right track with his reform, which includes better pay for nurses and a cap on their own contributions. An aging society cannot afford to care for hundreds of thousands of people only on the principle of “washing, changing, feeding”. Decent care also includes time, empathy and a greater appreciation for the caregivers, both financially and ideally. You are doing a service to society that cannot be overestimated.
Does Spahn reach deeper into the control pot?
Was Spahn remains silent: With a federal grant of one billion euros and a mini increase in contributions for childless people, good care cannot be financed in the long term. Shortly before the election, however, the minister shies away from an honest answer: Will the contributions to long-term care insurance rise not only for childless people, but soon for everyone? Or will the next health minister dig much deeper into the tax pot?
Since the state cannot constantly increase the contributions to the social security funds, care inevitably becomes a matter for the finance minister as well. When it comes to pensions, every third euro comes from the tax pot – that is, from all of us.
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