Blue and White recently pushed to amend Article 22 of the "Elderly Welfare Law" to exempt seniors over 65 from paying health insurance premiums, but hastily deleted two important legal sources of health insurance subsidies that local governments should provide to disadvantaged seniors. Democratic Progressive Party legislator Lin Chuyin criticized yesterday that Blue and White deleted all the medical expenses for "vulnerable elders". This is the result of surprise voting without full deliberation, failure to communicate with the administrative agencies.
Blue and White use the rhetoric of "free health premiums" to deceive the people
Lin Chuyin criticized that Blue and White's reckless practice of the law is another bad thing. Blue and White used the rhetoric of "free health insurance" to deceive the people, but in fact it is an outrageous law that fakes welfare and really exploits and bullies the weak.
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Lin Chuyin said that the amendment to Article 22 of the "Elderly Welfare Law" that was passed in the blue and white third reading last Friday is basically a bad law packaged with fake welfare. The original article stipulates that local governments should subsidize the health insurance premiums, partial burdens of health insurance, and medical expenses not covered by health insurance benefits that the elderly cannot afford. The article in the third reading of the blue and white directly deletes the partial burden of health insurance and medical expenses not covered by health insurance benefits, leaving only health insurance premiums fully subsidized by the central government.
Lin Chuyin explained that the Ministry of Health and Welfare originally formulated the "Measures for Subsidy for the Elderly Who Cannot Afford to Participate in the National Health Insurance" based on Article 22. Now that the relevant provisions of the parent law have been deleted, medical subsidies for low-income and low-middle-income elders have directly lost their legal basis.
"Blue and White only have votes in their eyes, don't they have any disadvantages?" Lin Chuyin denounced that for the health insurance premiums of ordinary elders, Blue and White uses the money of young people across the country to pay for it; the disadvantaged elders who need medical subsidies the most are directly ignored by Blue and White. The Democratic Progressive Party’s county mayor candidates proposed elderly health insurance subsidies, which would allow counties and cities to assess their own finances and prepare their own budgets. However, the blue-and-white amendment forces the central government to fully bear the burden, increasing annual expenditures by 40 billion yuan and cutting off the protection of the most vulnerable elderly.
Lai Zhongqiang, the convener of the Keminlian think tank, also criticized, "Heaven and Earth are unkind, treating all things as stupid dogs; Blue and White are unkind, treating low- and middle-income elderly people as stupid dogs." Blue and White shifted the burden of the elderly health insurance subsidy to the central government to fully bear the responsibility for the national low-income and low-income people. Why should middle- and low-income elderly people have to bear the consequences of being deprived of medical subsidies? We called on all the people to speak out and asked People’s Party Chairman Huang Guochang, Kuomintang League Chief Fu Kunqi and others to resign from their posts. Legislative President Han Guoyu apologized and declared that in the future, he would abide by the principles of transparency and discussion that must be achieved in congressional deliberations.
