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伯纳姆希望照护服务做到使用时免费。费用由谁承担?

伯纳姆希望为英格兰建立一项类似NHS的照护服务,并承诺向选民提交计划。服务覆盖范围、成本和筹资方式仍未确定。

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当时

历经30年失败后,伯纳姆承诺携手改革社会护理

当时尚无定论

  • 所提供的摘录中没有确认审查的具体月份、薪酬时间表或资金机制。

我们说过将关注的

  • 加快后的审查能否提出经过成本核算的方案,并经受住跨党派会谈和资金决策的考验。
  • 公平薪酬的扩展能否从原则转化为对服务提供者具有约束力的薪酬标准和资金支持。

现在

伯纳姆希望为英格兰建立一项类似NHS的照护服务,并承诺向选民提交计划。服务覆盖范围、成本和筹资方式仍未确定。

现已确认

  • 伯纳姆承诺在下一次大选时向选民提交一份完善的照护计划。

要让人们在需要时免费获得社会照护,需要具备哪些条件?费用又将由谁来承担?首相安迪·伯纳姆提出,为英格兰建立一个类似NHS的国家照护服务,并以“人人缴费,人人享有保障”为原则。在9月27日接受BBC的劳拉·昆斯伯格采访时,他表示将制定一份明确计划,并在下一次大选时提交选民。这是承诺提出一项方案,而不是承诺推出一项已有资金保障、随时可以启动的服务,也不是承诺在投票前将其付诸实施。⁠1⁠2

这个问题在大选前很久就已至关重要。需要他人帮助处理日常生活的人,不能想当然地认为社会照护会像预约NHS服务那样按同样条件提供。在英格兰,地方议会是否帮助支付照护费用,要经过需求评估和财务评估。储蓄超过£23,250的人通常无法获得这类帮助;低于这一门槛的人仍可能需要分担费用。伯纳姆的愿景将改变一个人何时需要面对照护账单,但他尚未界定什么样的权利将取代现行规则。⁠2⁠12

人人缴费,人人享有保障。

安迪·伯纳姆 2

伯纳姆将现行制度称为“千疮百孔”,并警告称,社会照护体系一旦失灵,最终会损害NHS。他的理由不只是照护账单难以承担,而是如果照护支持无法纳入类似NHS的保障体系,同样会给医疗服务带来后果。但“使用时免费”这一说法只解决了论点的一部分:它表示,接受保障范围内照护的人届时无需付费;它并未说明哪些照护属于保障范围,也没有说明如何筹集共同承担的费用。⁠1⁠2

费用尚无定论

有人向伯纳姆提出了一项估算:在英格兰建立一套使用时免费的全英照护体系,每年需要£18 billion。他回答说:“没那么高。”这个数字是他质疑的一项估算,并非他自己的预算、政府认可的成本核算,也不是纳税人将要支付的金额。他没有给出其他年度金额或明确的专项税费,也没有排除增税的可能。若服务范围尚未界定,即使价格看起来精确,也仍无法回答一个基本问题:这笔钱究竟是为哪些服务定价?⁠2

工党2024年大选纲领承诺不提高国民保险、所得税或增值税。伯纳姆尚未解释,如何在履行这一承诺的同时,为一项大规模新增照护权利提供资金。他也没有说明,免费个人照护是否涵盖人们需要的各种帮助,或者住宿及膳宿费用是否仍由个人承担。这些界限既决定公共开支,也决定家庭最想知道的答案:现有账单中,哪些会消失?⁠2

双方都没有算清这笔账。伯纳姆提出了原则,却没有给出筹资公式;菲尔普则否定了一种可能的途径,却没有提出经过成本核算的替代方案。这并不意味着这一愿景毫无内容,但这意味着选民目前还无法将拟议的照护权利,与一份可信的说明进行比较——后者应当明确说明,他们需要共同放弃什么或为此支付多少。

审查不等于服务

伯纳姆希望将凯西女男爵主持的社会照护审查提前,该审查原定于2028年完成,他希望改为在2027年夏季完成。他表示将与她共同研究细节,并寻求跨党派共识。要求加快审查,并不代表其截止日期已获确认变更;有意寻求共识,也不代表其他政党已经同意。下一次大选的日期以及国家照护服务可能的启动日期均未确定。⁠2

已知

  • 伯纳姆承诺在下一次大选时向选民提交一份完善的照护计划。 12

未知

  • 这项服务的覆盖范围、年度成本、筹资方式和启动日期均未明确。

后续

  • 凯西的审查是否会提前,以及是否会提出一份供选民评估的计划。

眼下的关键区别,在于拟议的权利与现有权利并不相同。伯纳姆主张,人们在需要照护时应能获得服务,而无需当场付费;但申请由地方议会资助的支持服务,仍须接受需求和财务评估。接下来要检验的是,他能否将“人人享有保障”转化为一项界定清楚、资金有保障的权利,并明确说明哪些费用仍由家庭承担。在此之前,现行收费规则并未改变。⁠2⁠12

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  1. Prime Minister Andy Burnham proposes a national care service free at the point of use. For families facing care costs, that would change when a bill arrives. But what would the service cover, and how would he pay for it?
  2. People seeking council-funded care in England generally have a needs assessment, then a financial assessment. Savings above twenty-three thousand, two hundred and fifty pounds generally rule out council help with care costs. Falling below that figure does not necessarily make care free: a person may still have to contribute. Burnham wants to move towards an NHS-style system in which everyone contributes and everyone is covered, but he has not said exactly who would qualify or which bills would disappear.
  3. He calls the existing social care system “threadbare” and warns that, if it remains broken, it will ultimately damage the NHS. The distinction between health care and social care matters to someone who needs help with daily life: an NHS appointment is not subject to the council care-cost means test, while support with care can be.
  4. Eighteen billion pounds a year was the cost estimate put to Burnham for an England-wide system free at the point of use. He replied, “It's not that high.” That figure is not his costed plan or an agreed budget. He supplied no replacement annual estimate, funding formula or specific levy, and did not rule out tax rises. He has indicated that the choices could be difficult or unpopular.
  5. That leaves a political as well as a financial gap. Labour's 2024 election manifesto pledged not to increase national insurance, income tax or VAT; Burnham has not explained how the proposed service would be financed alongside that pledge. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp warns that tax rises are likely, calls further rises a Conservative red line and says his party would look for savings elsewhere. His warning is a forecast, not a decision to raise taxes. No quantified alternative savings have been established either.
  6. Burnham wants Baroness Casey's social-care review brought forward from its original 2028 deadline to summer 2027. He says he will work on the details with her and seek cross-party consensus. The earlier deadline has not been confirmed, and other parties have not agreed to his proposed model.
  7. Burnham says he will develop a clear plan and put it to voters at the next general election. That is a commitment to present a proposal, not a funded service already operating or a promise to introduce one before the election. The plan still needs to define what personal care would be free, whether residential or accommodation charges would remain, and when any new service could begin. Until those questions and a credible cost are settled, families cannot know which care bills it would remove or what taxpayers would pay. No date for the next general election or the start of a national care service has been established; people needing care remain subject to the existing assessment and charging rules.

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