The government wants to introduce a new tax, or long-term care contribution as it calls it. The contribution will be paid in a similar way to pension and health insurance contributions, i.e. as a compulsory contribution. So everyone will pay, without exception, including those who are caring for their elderly parents themselves and will not draw any benefits from the system.  Of course, behind the Government's efforts are vested interests, especially those who, before the crisis, speculated and invested heavily in the construction of so-called 'intergenerational centres', which are now mostly empty. The government wants to provide these lobbies with a systemic resource (read connection to state nurseries) and to put as many elderly people as possible into nursing homes. I remind the Government (because it has more than obviously forgotten this) that we elected it to work for the people, not for the lobbies. I also have a very simple solution for the Government on long-term care - to increase the minimum pensions so that long-term care is accessible to all. The elderly should then be free to decide for themselves whether to spend their old age at home or in intergenerational centres. The price of care will also be significantly lower in this case, because the market and competition will be at work.