Lukashenka plans to deprive parasites of free medicine

We spoke on condition of anonymity with one of the Belarusian officials, who explained what threatens in the prospect of adopting such a law.

– A few years ago, Deputy Prime Minister Tozik proposed making entrance to the polyclinic payable for those who go there too often. To be allowed to visit medical institutions a certain number of times a month – anything more than this, only for money.

– So old grandmothers go to clinics all the time. Really to expel them to doctors and not to accept?

– Basically, there are a lot of questions. Then, by the way, Tozik’s proposal did not pass. So there is nothing new in the fact that now they want to ban free treatment of some citizens, no. Most of all, this ban, it seems to me, applies to those Belarusians who left the country in the past few years, not necessarily for political reasons, for example, they simply work somewhere abroad. It is believed that since they do not pay taxes to the treasury, then they do not need to be treated either.

– What about the unemployed?

– This is generally a special article. We in Belarus have such a category as “parasites”. That is, people who work for themselves, past the state treasury. The logic is the same: why should they be treated at the expense of others?

– So, maybe it makes sense for parasites to register as unemployed?

– Those who are registered receive the equivalent of $20 per month. In addition, they can be involved free of charge in various socially useful work. Clean up the trash on the street, go out on a subbotnik. So not everyone likes it. And people actually work, only for themselves. Once a month, they are given receipts at the employment service, they must go to potential employers and register with them.

This system is reminiscent of the hard Andropov-era USSR, to be honest. By the way, a few years ago a state campaign began in Belarus to “regulate” local “parasites”. They were entered into a special general base and a special “parasite tax” was introduced at 20 base salaries. Then the tax, however, was canceled. But the base remains. Special commissions, spending their working time, sit on this issue. Whom to include there, whom to spare. In short, everything is in order to complicate the life of a simple Ukrainian parasite.

In addition, from December 1, 2022, the norms according to which they are classified as such have been tightened in Belarus. For the unemployed in Belarus, housing and communal services, gas, water, electricity are much more expensive. For heating, for example, they pay as much as six times higher than the workers.

The list of parasites is reviewed quarterly. In order not to get into the base, you can mess around without punishment for only three months, starting from the new quarter from the moment you lost your place.

Lukashenka has long been worried about citizens who do not contribute to the common cause of prosperity.

“They do not work, but they receive social services, including education and especially health care, like everyone else,” Alexander Grigoryevich was recently indignant.

“This is true? Unfair,” added the Old Man.

It is not very clear how parasites can receive educational services, because then they will be considered students and students, but here Lukashenka is more visible. And the president can cut off access to medicine to everyone who, as it seems to him, is not working energetically enough for the benefit of Belarus. It is unlikely that anyone will dare to say a word across.

– Therefore, many believe that the law will not pass. The situation we have now is not such as to annoy the people, – continues my interlocutor, a Belarusian official. – In addition, we do not have such a compulsory medical insurance system as in Russia, when an employer pays for an employee to an insurance company. The collected taxes are simply accumulated in the Social Insurance Fund, and sick leave, pensions and other expenses are already paid from there. But as such, there is no mandatory health insurance.

The Belarusians themselves are rather philosophical about possible changes. They think that free healthcare in their country is like Schrödinger’s cat. It seems to be on paper, but it’s still not there. Here are the views expressed by ordinary citizens about the possible know-how.

“Something will eventually change? )))) ahahahaha), – a familiar Belarusian who works in Russia is having fun. “When I come home, I always receive all services for a fee, because free of charge is such help that it’s easier to diagnose yourself on the Internet.”

“You have to constantly call for a coupon from the very morning; the number of “free” coupons is limited; for some types of services, doctors did not hesitate to set prices long before all these discussions; to cure or pull out teeth, you generally need some kind of space grandmas. That is, in fact, we have not had free medicine for a long time. It was all just on paper.”

“Now everyone goes to private centers, but I’m afraid that they will also fall under this administrative roller of the fight against parasites.”

“They were very scared with their free medicine, they only have it on paper, a living example is the city of Bobruisk: everything is paid for their child from the first day of life, because there are no doctors for free, there is simply no district doctor, only a nurse, everything is free, – they passed the tests several times and with grief in half there were scheduled examinations, at which the head could not really answer a single question, so let them shove their free medicine to hell.

How does this fit with the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus? But no way. Article 45 of the Basic Law of the Republic explicitly states that the citizens of Belarus are guaranteed the right to health care, including “free treatment in state healthcare institutions.” But who now pays attention to some kind of Constitution, not to mention the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where these basic rights are also spelled out.

After all, nowhere is it said that there are first-class Belarusians who will now be treated, and second-class Belarusians who can lie down and die.