Study Governmental Purchase Pension Services

“Aging” is a kind of “"diseases of civilization”. The prescription is governmentspurchasing services for the aged.The sixth national census in China find that60years of ageand older population has reached178000000, accounting for13.26%of the total population,and urban and rural disabled elderly people has reached about33000000, accounting for19%of the total population. At the same time, China is only country whose elderly population ismore than100000000in the world’s, and has an annual rate of more than3%over the sameperiod of rapid growth。Governments purchasing aged-care service indicate the relationship among theindividuals, families and government. In the period of theocracy and monarchical era,government supplying aged-care service often occur, but this is generally not thegovernment’s legal obligations, the elderly rights. In the people’s sovereignty, the interests ofthe aged gained a solid political foundation.On governments supplying aged-care service, we must deal with the division ofresponsibilities between the different levels’ governments, different geographicalgovernments.A third party supplying aged-care services purchased by the governments has severaladvantages that the government personally supplying services has not.. It may promote totransformation of government functions, to introduce competitive mechanism, to improveservice efficiency, to improve the administrative democracy, to the construction of civilsociety.Today the United States, Australia, Czech, Britain, China and Taiwan area of ourcountry have many thresholds on the persons who want to receive the aged-care servicespurchased by the governments. These qualifications include economic ability, social demand,widows and orphans、 empty nest, age, occupation, contribution, practical living, remote,rural areas, rural areas, indigenous.When governments determine to buy what aged-care service, they should think aboutfour factors. First factor is the services’ importance and emergency for the elderly living anormal life. Second factor is governments’ financial capacity. Third factor is the fairness between the old man and the other members of society. Fourth factor is the nature of theaged-care service.When governments purchase aged-care services,they should focus on the protection ofprivacy in the elderly.Finally, the present files on governments purchasing aged-care services exists obviousdiscriminations, which is prone to to cause disputes,because at present people have a strongconsciousness of rights and democracy.