Solidary care instead of private care risk

National solidarity: Securing care in solidarity instead of privatizing care risk

16/03/2011

The Social Voluntary Solidarity Association strongly opposes the privatization of the care risk. Instead, the care in the future should be organized in solidarity in the form of a civil insurance. "The people solidarity is committed to a reform of long-term care insurance, the future care solidarity and better meet the real needs of people in need of care," said the President of the Social and Welfare Association, Voluntary Solidarity, Prof. Gunnar Winkler, on Thursday to the Federal Executive of the Association's position paper "Caring for solidarity, in line with demand and ensuring high quality". With its 280,000 members and 16,000 employees, many of them in care services and institutions, the Volkssolidarität intends to contribute to the debate on statutory new regulations in nursing.

Winkler continued, "The challenges of an aging nursing society can and must be tackled in solidarity. This requires further development of long-term care insurance. The performance-related concept of care is no longer up-to-date. We are in favor of a new regulation that takes better account of the needs of people in need of care with dementia and mental illness. The preservation of self-reliance and the social participation of the people to be cared for must be more in the foreground of the care. This also means opening up new scope for better nursing care instead of nursing care every minute. This path must be linked to a significant upgrading of the nursing profession "."

At the same time, popular solidarity demands that prevention and rehabilitation should be promoted more strongly before care. For this purpose, she proposes to make long-term care insurance an independent institution of rehabilitation services. Winkler emphasized that growing demands for care with an increasing number of people in need of care and increased performance can not be met with the current financing mechanism. "People's solidarity is in the care of a citizens' insurance company. However, we have a risk structure and financial equalization between social and private long-term care insurance before a citizen's insurance. It can not be that the private long-term care insurance continues to accumulate surpluses of currently 19 billion euros, while over the social care insurance with tight finances well over 90 per cent of the supply tasks must be provided. A privatization of the caregiver risk, for example through a funded reserve, we reject. The wrong way of scaling health care should not be repeated in nursing. "

In its paper, popular solidarity also presents positions on the development of the nursing profession, nursing education and training, nursing care and reconciliation of care and work, and the development of nursing infrastructure. (Pm)