"Any healthy person can afford 45 rubles a year. It's not a colossal amount": Matviyenko wants the unemployed to pay for their own compulsory health insurance.
Head of the Federation Council was indignant "Enormous expenses" incurred by regional budgets to pay for mandatory health insurance for unemployed citizens: in Moscow alone, there are approximately 700 such people.
“This is either shadow employment or they simply don’t want to work,” Valentina Matvienko is convinced.
According to her, the average employer nationally contributes 45 rubles per employee to the compulsory medical insurance fund annually. The senator believes that unemployed workers will be able to afford this contribution, which will reduce the burden on the budget.
“Any healthy person can pay 45 thousand a year,” she said. — These are not large, colossal amounts of money.”
In September, with a similar initiative acted Mayor Moscow's Sergei SobyaninAccording to his calculations, the capital's budget allocates 180 billion rubles per year for unemployed residents, while the country's overall expenditure on 10 million unemployed people amounts to approximately 1 trillion rubles.
Last week the Ministry of Finance claimedBy the end of this year, the budget deficit is expected to reach 5,7 trillion rubles—the largest gap in the three-and-a-half years of war with Ukraine. Apparently, they want to plug it, in part, by paying the unemployed (Matviyenko asked officials not to delay working on this proposal).
Two years ago, a State Duma deputy Andrey Gurulev offered send all the unemployed to the front.
In May of this year in Russia raised a question about the possible introduction of a tax on the unemployed - in the amount of three thousand rubles per month.
By the way, isn't 45 thousand rubles a year a colossal amount for you?
