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Care reform delayed: Cabinet postpones decision

The German government's planned care reform is still pending. According to Zdfheute, long-term care insurance funds are in serious financial trouble, but no public draft bill has been presented yet.

Care reform delayed: Cabinet postpones decision
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The German government's planned care reform is still pending. According to Zdfheute, long-term care insurance funds are in serious financial trouble, but no public draft bill has been presented yet.

Germany’s long-term care insurance funds are struggling with significant financial problems. The federal government wants to counteract this, but a concrete draft bill to reform long-term care insurance has not yet been made public, as Zdfheute reports.

Various approaches are being discussed internally. Details of the planned measures are not yet known. The government is under pressure to secure the long-term financing of long-term care insurance.

Source: www.zdfheute.de

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