Health insurance premiums are exempted for those aged 65 and above. Wang Wanyu criticized the People’s Party’s election proposal and asked the next generation to bear the burden of 40 billion per year.

In order to promote the exemption of health insurance premiums for seniors over 65 years old, the Popular Party Group did not hesitate to stay in the Legislative Yuan and lined up to propose amendments to the "Elderly Welfare Law", and even passed the third reading with the support of the Kuomintang Group. In this regard, Times Power Party Chairman Wang Wanyu said today (17th) that the People's Party's election proposals have caused the government to spend an additional 40 billion yuan every year, which will be shared by the next generation. It is no longer the party that originally emphasized fiscal discipline and generational justice.

Facing the passage of the third reading of the amendment to the "Elderly Welfare Act," Chief Executive Officer Cheuk Wing-tai recently stated that the government will need to increase its budget by NT$40 billion every year in the future, and as the population ages, the annual budget increase will be very rapid. In addition, he also criticized Legislative President Han Guoyu for ignoring the constitution, contempt for the law, and allowing the opposition legislators to take the lead in violating the constitution.

In an interview with this newspaper today, Wang Wanyu said that the People's Party, which likes to emphasize that it cares about young people, packages "spending money in elections" as "medical equality" and says it wants to solve the problem of inconsistent benefits for the elderly in various counties and mayors. But does medical equality mean "free health insurance"?

Wang Wanyu pointed out that Taiwan has universal health insurance, and there will not be different health insurance payment standards just because elders live in different counties and cities. If we want to take care of elders with financial difficulties, we can certainly establish a consistent subsidy system, but why does the conclusion lead to the conclusion that more than 80% of the elders do not have to pay health insurance premiums at all? This kind of resource distribution cannot be said to be fair, but is a reverse distribution. In the vernacular, it is called "robbing the poor and giving to the rich."

Wang Wanyu said that the People's Party cared so much about the rights of young people in the past, but faced with the dilemma that young people cannot afford to rent a house and their children cannot receive public care, it also requires the government to spend nearly 40 billion to pay health insurance premiums for elders who may not necessarily need subsidies. Is it necessary to sacrifice the future of the next generation for the sake of votes?

Wang Wanyu mentioned that in February this year, Huang Guochangcai criticized DPP New Taipei mayor candidate Su Qiaohui's denture subsidy policy for the elderly, saying that without financial planning, it was "irresponsible and throwing away money." Now it is the People's Party's turn to push for a health insurance subsidy of nearly 40 billion yuan a year, but it has not put forward a complete financial resource plan. Instead, it uses similar political views put forward by candidates from the Democratic Progressive Party to defend its law amendments.

Wang Wanyu criticized the People's Party, "If others are writing checks randomly, does that mean you can follow suit?" The people's party's past emphasis on financial discipline and the spirit of justice for generations are now gone.