노인장기요양보험법의 주요내용과 문제점에 대한 검토

Abstract

The population of Korean old people is increasing more quickly than any country else.But now, it is difficult to care old people who need long-term medical treatment in home because nuclear family and women’s participating into community is increased and parturition rate is decreased. As a result, serious social problems concerned with that are raised. So, government is developing various solutions to solve the old people problems, and one of that is establishment of the law of long-term care insurance for senior citizens. The law is composed with 12 chapters of principle and 70 provisions, and the purpose is to improve the quality of national life by providing the old who is in difficulties in usual life with expense for long-term care planning health of the old and stability of like and lessening burden of them. According to the main contents of the law, National Health Insurance Corporation shall take charge of the insurer and manage and operate all financial affairs including but not limited to levy and collection of insurance money and insurance payout, and policyholder of the National Health Service shall have the insurance obligatorily, and 65 more years old peoples who are policyholder of the insurance and supported by them, were prescribed is the insured, beneficiary shall be who obtained the grade higher than 3rd grade through examination of committee of recuperation judgment. But the law shall be examined to forecast what problems can be occurred when it is practiced because it will be executed from Jul. 1, 2008 and being prepared as yet. Accordingly, the research was executed to understand main contents of the law and find problem involved by the law like as the problems concerned with request for recuperation judgment, method of supplying resources, process of recuperation, appointment of recuperation agency etc. and plan countermove.