[Medical rehabilitation between sociopolitical requirements and political employment market interests]

Abstract

Due to the demographic development and the changes in morbidity, the medical rehabilitation in the statutory pension insurance will be more and more important in future. The budgeting of expenditures is not an appropriate means for the elimination of existing insufficiencies related to medical rehabilitation. Excessive or insufficient use of these services can be interpreted as moral hazard problems. The focus of all measures has to be to eliminate the existing disincentives in the interface between pension insurance and labor market in order to increase the efficiency of medical rehabilitation.