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At present, the Government is promoting the long-term care tax-funded system, however, the main source of revenue is merely limited to business tax and estate and gift tax. The aim of this paper is to build the long-term care financing stability by considering the pension reform, integrating strategy, expecting to build a lasting social financial system. A number of potential sources of revenue for long-term care financing are also proposed to make up for the fund gap. Based on the stable and sustainable sources of revenue, the value-added long-term care financing policy can be established. The proposed strategy is to build the intergovernmental specialized committee to make the overall assessment, including managing the data of the fund gaps, listening to the opinions from the relevant parties and communicating thoroughly with the people involved. A complete institution should be established to be of benefit to the public and to ensure the value-added long-term care tax-funded system to be carried out. The action plan comprises following important items: (1) the pension reform and long-term care tax-funded system should form a "complementary and reciprocal" community; (2) establishing the incentive-based system to encourage human resources involvement in long-term care industry and integrating the long-term care learning path ; (3) attracting relevant software and hardware industries to advocate in long-term care industry; (4) making a comprehensive inventory of the public vacant spaces to build the long-term care facilities and avoiding the abuse of funds; (5) the central, local government and the related civil institutions should establish a holistic, effective and simplified administrative execution system to implement the goal. The above-mentioned strategies not only can help escape from the financial crisis under the tax-funded system, but provide with a more macroscopic planning. Furthermore, the activity of the society prosperity and social harmony can be fulfilled.
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