After successive abortive attempts to grapple with the question of how it will all be paid for – and how to avert the threat of the old and infirm forced to sell their homes to pay for their care – radical reform is an issue that can no longer be ducked.
"Part of the policy that we've announced is that we don't want people forming policy to have to worry about they're going to have to pay if the policy is found infirm," Chief Justice John Roberts told Rachel Meeropol, the New York lawyer representing the detainees.
The nation was paying more attention to its aging, infirm cities.
It has built a significant system of social solidarity, which pays grants to the old and infirm and provides free healthcare to the poor.
He recommended a cap on the amount individuals are expected to pay for care when they become elderly and infirm before the state steps in of between £25,000 – £50,000, to be settled at £35,000.
The Oxford economist recommended a cap of £35,000 on the amount individuals are expected to pay for care when they become elderly and infirm before the state steps in.
The 50-year-old home help, who works for social services with elderly and infirm people, and her mostly female co-workers, are now owed five months' pay, about €4,000 £3,4900).
In California home-care workers, who look after the infirm in their own houses, have demonstrated against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to cut their pay to the state minimum wage of $8 per hour.
Like many people, I don't begrudge a penny that I've contributed towards public sector pension schemes, and I'm more than happy to help pay for much needed local services like schools, refuse collection or care schemes for the elderly or infirm.
I'm not well off, nor poor, but I am more than happy to pay more income tax if I thought it was going towards good things: NHS, social care, helping the elderly, infirm etc. Shouldn't the message from any prospective government be, "there's a good chance you'll pay more tax.
