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一 |     DETROIT -- The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its walkout against Detroit's Three automakers, shutting down Ford's largest factory and threatening Jeep maker Stellantis.In a surprise move Wednesday night, 8,700 members left their jobs at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville.And Thursday morning, union President Shawn Fain hinted at further action against Stellantis. “Here's to hoping talks at Stellantis today are more productive than Ford yesterday,” Fain wrote on X, formerly Twitter, without saying what might happen.Ford's truck plant makes heavy-duty F-Series pickup trucks and large Ford and Lincoln SUVs, hitting the company's most lucrative products. The vehicles made at the plant generate $25 billion per year in revenue, the company said in a statement.Fain said in a statement that the union has waited long enough “but Ford hasn’t gotten the message” to bargain for a fair contract. “If they can’t understand that after four weeks, the 8,700 workers shutting down this extremely profitable plant will help them understand it,” Fain said.The strike came nearly four weeks after the union began its walkouts against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis on Sept. 15, with one assembly plant from each company. The company, however, called the strike expansion “grossly irresponsible” and said it has made strong wage and benefit offers to the union. It said the move puts about a dozen other Ford facilities at risk, as well as parts supply plants that together employ over 100,000 people.A Ford executive said the union called a meeting at the company's Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters Wednesday afternoon where Fain asked if the company had another offer. High-ranking Ford executives responded that they are working on possibly bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the UAW national contract, essentially making them unionized. But they didn't have a significantly different economic offer, the executive said. Fain was told the company put a strong offer on the table, but there wasn't a lot of room to increase it and keep it affordable for the business, the executive said.Fain responded by saying, if that's the company's best offer, “You just lost Kentucky Truck Plant,” said the executive. The meeting only lasted about 15 minutes, he said. In a video, Fain said the union moved because Ford didn't change its offer. “We've been very patient working with the company on this,” he said. “They have not met expectations, they're not even coming to the table on it.”The escalation against Ford shows that Fain is trying to increase pressure on the company, said Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University who follows labor issues.But Ford and the other automakers have made concessions and raised wage offers, he said. The companies, he said, “may have reached their resistance points to varying degrees.” Executives, he said, have bottom line positions they can’t cross in terms of staying competitive with other automakers.Fain, Masters said, likely is testing how far he needs to push Ford before going to “full throttle,” by taking all 57,000 Ford members out on strike.The union’s move doesn’t leave him optimistic for a quick end to the strikes, Masters said. “I think the issues that remain on the table are quite thorny,” he said, pointing to union demands that all workers get defined benefit pensions and health insurance when they retire.The UAW expanded its strikes on Sept. 22, adding 38 GM and Stellantis parts warehouses. Assembly plants from Ford and GM were added the week after that. The Kentucky strike brings to 33,700 the number of workers on strike against the three automakers.Thus far, the union has decided to target a small number of plants from each company rather than have all 146,000 UAW members at the automakers go on strike at the same time.Last week, the union reported progress in the talks and decided not to add any more plants. This came after GM agreed to bring joint-venture electric vehicle battery factories into the national master contract, almost assuring that the plants will be unionized.Battery plants are a major point of contention in the negotiations. The UAW wants those plants to be unionized to assure jobs and top wages for workers who will be displaced by the industry’s ongoing transition to electric vehicles.Since the start of the strike, the three Detroit automakers have laid off roughly 4,800 workers at factories that are not among the plants that have been hit by the UAW strikes.The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs. They note that the job cuts have occurred mainly at factories that make parts for assembly plants that were closed by strikes.The UAW rejects that argument. It contends that the layoffs are unjustified and were imposed as part of the companies' pressure campaign to persuade UAW members to accept less in negotiations with automakers. The factories affected by layoffs are in six states: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana and New York. Sam Fiorani, an analyst with AutoForecast Solutions, a consulting firm, said he thinks the layoffs reflect a simple reality: The automakers are losing money because of the strikes. By slowing or idling factories that are running below their capacities because of strike-related parts shortages, Fiorani said, the companies can mitigate further losses.“It doesn’t make sense to keep running at 30% or 40% of capacity when it normally runs at 100%,” he said. Striking workers are receiving $500 a week from the union’s strike pay fund. In some states, laid-off workers could qualify for state unemployment aid, which, depending on a variety of circumstances, could be less or more than $500 a week. Fiorani said that as the strikes widen, more workers will likely be laid off at non-striking plants. Separate companies that manufacture parts for the automakers are likely to have laid off workers but might not report them publicly, said Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Anderson Economic Group in Lansing, Michigan. A survey of parts supply companies by a trade association called MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers found that 30% of members have laid off workers and that more than 60% expect to start layoffs in mid-October.。

二 |     为深入贯彻落实党中央、国务院关于加快建立长期护理保险制度的重大决策部署，建立适配群众需求、符合长期护理保险特点与市场发展要求的支付管理机制，近日，国家医疗保障局印发了《关于做好长期护理保险支付管理工作的指导意见》(以下简称《指导意见》)，现对有关内容解读如下。                        　　一、《指导意见》出台的背景是什么？          　　加快建立长期护理保险制度，是党中央、国务院为应对人口老龄化、健全社会保障体系作出的重大决策部署。

三 | 长期护理保险支付管理是保障参保人员享受优质服务、维护基金安全平稳运行的关键环节，对长期护理服务市场健康发展具有重要牵引作用。

四 | 随着长期护理保险制度逐步发展，各地在前期探索中已初步形成符合本地实际的长期护理保险支付管理机制，但在支付范围、支付方式、支付标准管理等方面仍存在差异，一定程度上影响群众公平享受待遇，也难以有效引导长期护理服务市场规范发展。         　　在总结各地试点经验的基础上，经商财政部，国家医疗保障局出台《指导意见》，对长期护理保险支付管理工作作出统一规范，进一步发挥长期护理保险基金战略购买作用，切实保障长期护理保险待遇享受人员基本照护需求，激励引导长期护理服务市场健康发展，提升长期护理保险基金使用效率，促进长期护理保险制度高质量发展。         　　二、制定《指导意见》的总体考虑是什么？          　　《指导意见》研究制定过程中，始终坚持以人民为中心的发展思想，以保障群众基本需求为出发点，注重与长期护理保险制度相适配，切实发挥长护险基金支付的牵引作用。

五 |          　　总体考虑：一是坚持保障基本。坚持尽力而为、量力而行，严格规范长期护理保险基金支付范围。坚持以收定支、收支平衡，强化预算管理，确保长期护理保险基金安全高效运行。         　　二是坚持科学易行。适应长期护理保险服务供给特点，按照科学合理、易行高效的原则，明确长期护理保险支付方式。评估服务以按人次付费为主，护理服务以按时长付费为主，区分不同服务类型合理确定时长付费单元。

六 |          　　三是坚持规范管理。

七 | 科学编制长期护理保险基金年度预算，加强预算绩效管理，建立基金运营监控和风险防范机制；加强服务质量评价，引导规范服务行为，推动长期护理服务市场良性有序竞争。         　　三、《指导意见》的主要内容是什么？          　　《指导意见》着眼于当前长期护理保险全面建制的整体形势，对长护支付管理的相关政策和核心要素进行了梳理明确，主要内容共分为七个部分，具体包括：          　　第一部分为总体要求，明确了《指导意见》制定的重要意义、指导思想与总体原则。第二部分为明确支付范围，规定长期护理保险基金原则上按规定支付定点机构提供的评估费用、服务费用，以及依法依规引入社会力量参与经办管理服务产生的费用，并明确了上述三类费用支出的基本原则。第三部分为规范支付方式，明确评估服务以按人次付费为主，护理服务以按时长付费为主，同时区分居家、机构、社区三种不同服务类型，合理确定时长计费单元。

八 | 第四部分为合理确定支付标准，要求综合考量长期护理保险基金支撑能力、参保人员基本保障需求与长期护理服务供给情况，合理确定护理服务、评估服务的支付标准并坚持动态调整。

九 | 第五部分为严格基金管理和监督，明确了基金预算管理、支付费用审核拨付管理、基金监督管理等方面的要求，保障参保人员合法权益。第六部分为加强服务质量评价，要求建立健全定点长护服务机构服务质量评价机制和费用控制激励约束机制，将评价结果与费用支付、协议续签等挂钩，引导相关机构规范服务行为。第七部分为强化组织保障，明确了各级医疗保障部门的职责要求，设置政策过渡期，保障现有试点地区实现平稳过渡，并要求做好政策宣传解读工作，及时总结推广典型经验。

十 |          　　四、《指导意见》对地方医保部门抓好工作落实有哪些要求？          　　《指导意见》要求各地在总结试点经验的基础上，做好与现行长期护理保险支付管理工作的衔接，发挥长期护理保险基金支付的牵引作用，赋能长护相关行业、产业高质量发展。各统筹地区结合本地经济社会发展水平、基金承受能力等因素，科学制定护理服务支付标准并动态调整。要求原有试点地区应当利用3年左右时间逐步完成过渡，确保参保群众待遇稳定衔接。         　　(国家医疗保障局网站) 【编辑:梁异】。

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