Will you take it for 16? It seems the authorities have started bargaining with the unemployed, who they want to force to pay for health insurance.

Today the governor Primorye Oleg Kozhemyako proposed Charge the unemployed money to pay for compulsory medical insurance. According to the official's calculations, it would amount to about 16 rubles per year, which is "not that much."

Last week, the Chairperson of the Federation Council put forward a similar idea. Valentina MatvienkoOnly she assessed the annual cost of a compulsory medical insurance policy is 45 thousand rubles and called this "not a colossal amount" that "any healthy person" can afford.

Even earlier with a similar initiative performed Mayor Moscow's Sergei Sobyanin (He did not announce the cost of the policy, but estimated the country's expenses at around a trillion).

Authorities emphasize that this measure will reduce the burden on regional budgets and use the freed-up funds to improve the quality of medical care.

According to the Primorsky Krai governor, the regional budget spends approximately 5 billion rubles annually to pay for health insurance for the unemployed.

“How will an unemployed person pay for health insurance?” Residents of Primorye are outraged in the comments to the news. "Don't you guys want to steal less? Then maybe there'll be enough for new medical equipment?"

Developing the topic, people also propose introducing fees for school education and calling the police to the scene of an accident.

“But how then are we going to talk about how badly Americans live?” — one of them doubted.