Text file: 6136.txt
author: ahac36 nuncij
downvotes: 2
end consideration date: 2014-10-25
id: '6136'
number comments: 9
number views: 1474
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities\n\
  Slovenia does not currently have a comprehensive long-term care system and regulation,\
  \ but various services or material benefits for people in need of long-term care\
  \ are provided within the health care system, social and family care, pension and\
  \ disability insurance, and special care systems for people with disabilities, including\
  \ war and military invalids.\nCurrently, around 42,000 people are covered by formal\
  \ forms of long-term care services (various forms of institutional care, home care,\
  \ patronage, family assistant) (source: UMAR 2014), while around 18,000 people receive\
  \ only long-term care-related cash benefits (long-term care allowance), i.e. a total\
  \ of 60,000 people.\nBy comprehensively regulating the new long-term care system,\
  \ the MoLSA aims to provide potential beneficiaries - users and their families -\
  \ with an adequate level of social security and quality of life and, above all,\
  \ to provide the kind of assistance and support in which they would play an active\
  \ role in finding and providing the most appropriate form of assistance. In line\
  \ with this orientation, the objectives of the new law are:\n To introduce solidarity-based\
  \ financing of long-term care on the basis of the principles of social insurance,\
  \ thus ensuring a financially sustainable system and thus increasing the social\
  \ security and quality of life of people who have a reduced capacity for self-sufficiency\
  \ and need assistance in carrying out their life activities; To make high-quality\
  \ individualised long-term care services or rights accessible to the entire population\
  \ in need, giving priority to forms of assistance and support that ensure that beneficiaries\
  \ remain in their home environment; Promote the responsibility of the individual\
  \ and his/her family to provide an adequate level of care and assistance or social\
  \ security when they are dependent on the help of another person; Achieve greater\
  \ efficiency and transparency of the resources invested in long-term care; Integrate\
  \ long-term care providers into a functionally integrated, rational and efficient\
  \ system; To develop preventive action in this field in a systematic way and to\
  \ promote rehabilitation in long-term care and to encourage the use of modern technologies\
  \ in long-term care; To provide support for people with disabilities in carrying\
  \ out those activities related to their integration in society which, due to the\
  \ most severe type and degree of disability, they are unable to provide for themselves;\
  \ To ensure that people with disabilities are supported in the implementation of\
  \ those activities related to their integration in society. \nAccording to the MoLSA,\
  \ the reform of the long-term care system can only be successfully implemented in\
  \ conjunction with a comprehensive reform of the health system. Both reforms should\
  \ take into account the premise that the most efficient financing of both systems\
  \ is possible through an appropriate combination of resources collected through\
  \ social insurance, budgetary resources (collected through taxes) and user/household\
  \ payments. It is difficult to assess what the final arrangements will be at this\
  \ point in time, so any opposition to the introduction of a long-term care tax is\
  \ completely unjustified.\n "
response date: 2014-12-02
response due date: null
sent date: 2014-09-26
title: Against a new tax on long-term care
upvotes: 16
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/6136
