Associate Professor Xue Huiyuan, deputy director of the Social Security Research Center of Wuhan University, and Zhang Yonggao, a master degree candidate, published a paper entitled "The Development Dilemma and Optimization Path of Long-term Care Insurance under the Goal of Common Prosperity: An Analytical Framework Based on the "Path-Goal" Theory" in the 6th issue of "Learning and Practice" in 2024. The full text is now forwarded and shared with readers.

【author】Xue Huiyuan；Zhang Yonggao

【Published Journal】《学习与实践》

【Journal level】CSSCI

【Publication Time】Issue 6,2024

【Abstract】As an important component of the social security system, long-term care insurance can effectively promote common prosperity to a certain extent, but its logical mechanism, development dilemma and optimization path have not been fully revealed. Based on the path-goal theory, combining the development goals of common prosperity and long-term care insurance, the development of long-term care insurance is analyzed from the two dimensions of "common" and "affluent", and the development of long-term care insurance faces the following difficulties: some groups are not included in the scope of long-term care insurance, the support for difficult groups is insufficient, the evaluation standards of disability level are not uniform, the supervision and supervision mechanism is not perfect, the long-term care service system is not perfect, the reimbursement of nursing expenses is different, the financing channel is single, and the overall fund scale is not large. The number of nursing services is small, the design of target services lacks humanistic care, and the participation of charity and social mutual aid is insufficient. In view of this, it is necessary to further optimize from the two dimensions of "common" and "affluent" to improve the fairness and sustainability of long-term care insurance and help achieve common prosperity.

【Keywords】long-term care insurance; common prosperity; "path-target" theory;

【Funds】Humanities and Social Science Research Planning Fund of the Ministry of Education, "Research on the Effect Evaluation and Optimization Path of Long-term Care Insurance Pilot Policy Based on Counterfactual Analysis" (No.: 22YIA630101); Major Project of the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, "Research on the Path, Mechanism and Reform Strategy of the Old-age Security System to Promote Common Prosperity" (Project No.: 22JD630014);