Coalition to set up long-term care commission
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The coalition Government has revealed it will establish a commission on long-term care which will report back within a year.
The coalition agreement, published today, reveals that the commission will investigate a range of ideas for funding long-term care, including a voluntary insurance scheme to protect the assets of those who go into residential care and a partnership scheme as proposed by Derek Wanless.
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Richard Brown | 25 May 2010 4:15 pm
One measure of a civilised society is how we care for the old, the ill and the infirm.
We should be providing an acceptable minimum level of care for ALL these categories, with the option that they can have better if they want, but they pay the difference.
If that means we have to cut the level of benefits for those who can help themselves (e.g. other EU nationals who get benefits here which they can't get in their home country: girls who get pregnant just to have a council flat and get away from home) then so be it!
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