Taichung City Speaker Zhang Qingzhao's campaign headquarters was established today. Kuomintang Chairman Cheng Lai-wen, Taichung Mayor Lu Hsiu-yan, and KMT Taichung mayoral candidate Chiang Chi-chen all attended the platform. Lu Hsiu-yan and Chiang Chi-chen unanimously stated that the DPP's Taichung mayoral candidate He Xinchun may stop the elderly health insurance subsidies if the party is elected mayor. The Green Camp questioned the two people's rumors. Chiang Chi-chen responded by saying that this is all true.
Zhou Yonghong, the chief convener of the Democratic Progressive Party of the Taichung City Council, said that Lu Xiuyan and Jiang Qichen are spreading rumors again. We have said it many times. After He Xinchun is elected as mayor, the free health insurance policy for the elderly will continue and be increased, including subsidies for skin snake vaccines and the use of care cards for the elderly. It's so easy to use, Lu Xiuyan, why don't you use the skin snake vaccine subsidy and the care card for the elderly? Now Jiang Qichen and Lu Xiuyan want to scare the elderly by spreading rumors, "Is this your character, Jiang Qichen, relying on deception and spreading rumors to become the vice president of the Legislative Yuan?"
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Lu Xiuyan said that if Taichung wants to continue to be happy, it must choose the right person. The mayor must choose Jiang Qichen and the council member must choose Zhang Qingzhao. The Democratic Progressive Party mayor after Hu Zhiqiang did not agree with the need to take care of the elders and canceled the elderly health insurance subsidy. After she took office, she restored the elderly health insurance subsidy and budgeted 4 billion yuan every year to care for the elderly. Because this subsidy was not available to all counties and cities across the country, the Legislative Yuan passed the elderly health insurance on the third reading. However, Executive President Zhuo Rongtai did not countersign the subsidy bill. Because the DPP opposed it and none of the DPP legislators voted, it is very important who is elected mayor next time. Jiang Qichen must be elected so that the elderly health insurance subsidy can continue. If He Xinchun was in favor, why did he run away from the Legislative Yuan and not vote.
Jiang Qichen said that the National Health Insurance Subsidy for the Elderly was passed by the Legislative Yuan, but the Executive Yuan did not agree or endorse it. During the Lin Jialong era, the National Health Insurance Subsidy was cut. When Lu Xiuyan was elected mayor, he served as the chairperson of Lu Xiuyan’s campaign headquarters and insisted that it be restored after Lu came to power. Therefore, it is impossible for him to cut the National Health Insurance Subsidy for the elderly after he was elected mayor. This election is very important. We must tell the central government that the people are the most important, and the construction benefits that the people want must be given priority.
After the meeting, reporters asked, Green Camp questioned the Kuomintang’s claim that He Xinchun would not subsidize the elderly’s health insurance when he came to power. It was a rumor and smear campaign. What does the vice president think? Jiang Qichen emphasized that in the case of Taichung, the health insurance subsidy for the elderly was started during the Hu Zhiqiang era, Mayor Lin Jialong stopped it, and Mayor Lu Xiuyan restored it. There are facts that can be checked. At this stage, the DPP government does not countersign the health insurance subsidy for the elderly over 65 years old that was passed on the third reading by the Legislative Yuan, which will of course arouse public doubts and concerns.
Jiang Qichen said that many counties and cities support health insurance subsidies for the elderly, but what is the reason for the central government’s opposition? I am afraid that the candidates of the Democratic Progressive Party should ask their party central committee, and the health insurance subsidies for the elderly over 65 years old are not just to help the elders, because according to the National Health Insurance Administration, there are more than 4 million people in Taiwan over 65 years old, and almost 2.3 million of them are borne by their children.
However, the reporter further asked, "The reason why the Executive Yuan did not countersign is because the Legislative Yuan has no budget power. The Kuomintang's forced passage of the Elderly Health Insurance Subsidy Bill is destroying the constitution and disrupting the government." Jiang Qi did not respond to this.
