
The Union and the SPD reach agreement on the planned nursing commission and structural reforms.
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Statutory nursing care insurance is threatened with a deficit of billions this year, which is why savings and reforms are being discussed.
The formal decision for a new nursing commission will follow next week, which will develop proposals for structural reform.
It is said that the commission will be given the express task of presenting models for a balance between statutory and private nursing care insurance. The latter was particularly important to the SPD.
Until the beginning of the cabinet meeting, it was unclear whether the Union and the SPD had reached such an agreement in long negotiations that the reform could be discussed in the ministerial group. What made an agreement possible was not initially disclosed.
Linnemann wants to achieve savings in several areas, as statutory nursing care insurance is threatened with a billion-dollar deficit this year. After his announcement that he wanted to bring his draft to the cabinet this Wednesday, the SPD threatened to block it. She rejected “a pure austerity package”. The negotiations dragged on until Wednesday morning.
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