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The cabinet has approved a draft care reform to prevent short-term cuts in services. A comprehensive structural reform was postponed until next year.
After the cabinet decision on nursing care reform, the SPD parliamentary group called for far-reaching steps. The approved draft would “prevent the worst planned benefit cuts,” said SPD parliamentary group vice-president Dagmar Schmidt. Nursing care insurance will be stabilized “in the short term,” but this is “not yet a reform,” said Schmidt. In the next step, financial equalization between private and statutory nursing care insurance must be implemented.
“We now have to address the other structural problems,” said Schmidt. The SPD politician indicated that her group wanted to change the draft bill from the cabinet through the parliamentary process.
With the compromise on pension reform, the coalition wants to avert further increases in contributions for the financially struggling nursing care insurance. However, she has postponed a more profound structural reform until next year. A commission will now first submit proposals, which will then be implemented legislatively by mid-2027.
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Establishment of a commission for structural reform proposals by mid-2027.
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