Federal government approves planned nursing care reform

Berlin, Düsseldorf. After a long struggle between the Union and the SPD, the federal government has decided on the planned care reform. The cabinet passed Health Minister Carsten Linnemann's (CDU) draft law to reorganize long-term care insurance, as the Handelsblatt learned from government circles.

According to information from the Handelsblatt, the Union and the SPD initially agreed primarily on the further procedure. While only minor changes are apparently planned for the Care Reorganization Act (PNOG), further reform questions are to be dealt with in a commission. This could indicate that fundamental substantive conflicts were initially ignored in order to enable the draft bill to be discussed in the cabinet.

According to information from “Spiegel”, the commission should also present models for the balance between statutory and private nursing care insurance. The SPD had called for such an adjustment.