The question is whether the recently proposed dental cost-cap protection, to be phased in starting with older people, is sufficient, or whether the Riksdag should instead push for a broader, gradually developed cost-cap protection - similar to that in healthcare - combined with a special subsidy for municipalities.
Committee proposal adopted, 190–93 · ⇄ The decision would have gone the other way
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»Vänsterpartiet vill därför införa en tandvårdsförsäkring liknande den som finns inom övrig hälso- och sjukvård med ett högkostnadsskydd som gör att vuxna människor med behov inte ska behöva tacka nej till god tandvård.«“The Left Party therefore wants to introduce dental insurance similar to that which exists in other healthcare with a cost ceiling that means adults with needs should not have to decline good dental care.”dental insurance with cost ceiling · 2022 manifesto ↗
»Jämlik tandvård som integreras i övrig hälso- och sjukvård.«“Equal dental care that is integrated into other healthcare.”jämlik tandvård · party programme ↗
»att tandvården ska jämställas med övrig hälso- och sjukvård, och ingå i samma högkostnadsskydd.«“that dental care shall be brought into parity with other healthcare and be included in the same high-cost protection.”dental care in high-cost protection · 2022 manifesto ↗
»att snabbt få vård i den offentligt finansierade sjukvården ska ges efter behov och inte efter betalningsförmåga.«“that care in publicly funded healthcare should quickly be provided on the basis of need and not on the basis of ability to pay.”care based on need · party programme ↗
»Tandvårdens finansiering ska steg för steg likna annan sjukvård där du som patient betalar mindre och samhället mer.«“Dental care financing shall gradually resemble other healthcare where you as a patient pay less and society more.”dental care as other healthcare · 2022 manifesto ↗
»Stärkt tandvård för äldre bland annat genom att sänka högkostnadsskyddet för tandvård.«“Strengthened dental care for the elderly including by lowering the cost-protection ceiling for dental care.”lowered cost-protection ceiling for elderly's dental care · 2022 manifesto ↗
»Alla nya löften och reformer – som till exempel våra inkomstskattesänkningar – behöver finansieras eller rymmas inom överskottsmålet.«“All new promises and reforms – such as our income tax cuts – need to be financed or fit within the surplus goal.”reforms must be financed · 2022 manifesto ↗
»Att alla medborgare ska erbjudas tandvård på samma villkor som annan vård«“That all citizens shall be offered dental care on the same terms as other care”dental care as other care · 2022 manifesto ↗
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