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The expansion of the Korean welfare state and its results
— focusing on long-term care insurance for the elderly | | Author(s) | Yongho Chon |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Administration, vol 48, no 6, December 2014 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, December 2014 |
| Pages | pp 704-720 |
| Source | http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/spol |
| Keywords | Long-term care insurance ; Social welfare ; Social policy ; Korea. |
| Annotation | Since the early 2000s, there has been considerable expansion of the Korean welfare state. In particular, a new compulsory long-term care insurance (LTCI) for older people was introduced in 2008, facilitating the socialisation of long-term care (LTC) services at a national level. This study aims to examine how the Korean welfare state has coped with the increasing LTC needs of older people caused by introducing and implementing a new LTCI system and reforming it. This study argues that the LTCI was designed to meet limited objectives, such as providing minimal coverage and affording private for-profit market forces a predominant role in the provision of LTCI services. Owing to the implementation of the insurance, a number of achievements and shortcomings with respect to the LTCI have become evident. To address the challenges that have emerged, the Korean government announced a reform plan in 2012, which emphasised changes such as increasing coverage and improving the quality of services. Although the reform plan also shows a number of fundamental limitations, it is expected to contribute to the development of the Korean LTCI to a certain extent. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-151522219 A |
| Classmark | WPH: TY: TM2: 7DK |
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