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JOURNAL OF AGING & SOCIAL POLICY
卷 34, 期 1, 页码 73-90出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2021.1926867
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Population aging; long-term care; social insurance; social policy; welfare state
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资金
- NUS Initiative to Improve Health in Asia (NIHA)
- Glaxo Smith Kline-Economic Development Board (Singapore) Trust Fund
Singapore has implemented a long-term care insurance policy and transitioned from a voluntary to mandatory social insurance scheme after nearly two decades of experimentation. The new scheme covers aspects such as financing, eligibility, benefits, and potential impacts.
In recent years, governments in rapidly aging countries have looked toward the implementation of public insurance schemes to help cover the costs of care for their aging citizenry. This article presents a comprehensive overview of long-term care insurance policy in Singapore. We discuss the successes and challenges of nearly two decades (2002-2019) of policy experimentation with a voluntary long-term care insurance scheme, which was replaced by mandatory social insurance in the 2019 reform. Various aspects of the new scheme, including mode of financing, eligibility criteria, benefit design, and potential impacts are assessed. The article concludes that, in the inherent tension between the breadth and depth of public long-term care social insurance coverage, Singapore has opted for breadth at the expense of depth.
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