MEDICAL REHABILITATION BETWEEN POLICY OBJ ECTIVES AND LABOR-MARKET RESTRICTIONS

Due to the demographic development and the changes in morbidity, the m edical 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 rela ted 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 int erface between pension insurance and labor market in order to increase the efficiency of medical rehabilitation.