[The Epoch Times, July 14, 2022](Reported by Xia Song, Epoch Times reporter) Recently, Shandong, Guangdong and other provinces have introduced new medical insurance policies. In the next few years, the minimum payment period for medical insurance will increase. Male workers have reached 30 years, and female workers have reached 25 years. Years, the insured must reach the payment period in order to enjoy the medical insurance retirement benefits. attract public attention.
Radio Free Asia reported today (July 14) that some people questioned the CCP government’s adherence to the “clearing” policy, and the normalization of nationwide nucleic acid testing in the past three years, which has led to the bottom of the medical insurance fund, but made ordinary people extend the payment to pay the bill.
Medical insurance payment in many places extended to 30 years for men and 25 years for women
The medical insurance premiums paid by mainland residents have increased year by year. Originally, the medical insurance premiums paid by men for 25 years and women for 20 years have been increased to 30 years and 25 years respectively from July 1.
On June 20, the Guangdong Provincial Medical Bureau, the Provincial Department of Finance and the Provincial Taxation Bureau issued the “Interim Measures for the Transfer and Continuation of Basic Medical Insurance Relations in Guangdong Province”, proposing to gradually unify the policy on the payment period of medical insurance for employees in the province, and the cumulative payment period will be 2030. On January 1, it was unified for 30 years for male employees and 25 years for female employees.
Citizens who do not meet the provisions of the preceding paragraph will, starting from 2022, adjust the cumulative payment period of employee medical insurance year by year on the basis of the local 2021 payment period policy.
On December 28 last year, the Shandong Provincial Medical Security Bureau also issued a similar notice. The cumulative payment period is 30 years for male employees and 25 years for female employees. The co-ordination areas that have not reached the specified number of years will be transitioned into place by the end of 2025.
The netizen “My son’s study has not been effective for a long time” asked, “It was changed unilaterally, and a group of middle-aged people were cheated. When they handed in, they calculated their retirement age, and who knows when 30 (years) will become 35. (year).”
The Social Security Law of the Communist Party of China stipulates that when an individual participating in the basic medical insurance for employees reaches the statutory retirement age, if the cumulative payment reaches the number of years stipulated by the state, he will no longer pay the basic medical insurance premium after retirement, and enjoy the basic medical insurance benefits according to regulations; Pay the fee until the specified period.
It is almost impossible to pay 30 years of medical insurance premiums, netizens question the authorities for breaking the contract
The introduction of the new medical insurance policy also means that corporate employees who have paid medical insurance premiums for 15 years before must continue to pay. Zhang Yang, a sociology scholar in Guangdong, told Radio Free Asia on July 14 that the problem of raising residents’ medical insurance premiums to 30 years is a serious problem, and there are not many people who can pay medical insurance for 30 years.
“Many people can’t go to work at the age of 25. If you are a graduate student or a doctor, you must be over the age of 30. You (the government) asks to pay for 30 years, which is almost impossible. Because you are unemployed, you cannot pay medical insurance, because you only work normally. , you will pay social security and medical insurance. If you can’t go to work, you can’t pay.”
Mr. Gao, a resident of Wuhan, also told Radio Free Asia, “In the past, the payment of medical insurance was limited to 15 years, and you could enjoy life-long medical insurance. In the past, both men and women paid for 15 years. Now that the regulations are revised, the burden on the common people will be heavier, can they afford it? It’s still a question mark. This has a very big impact on the common people. Especially some people’s working years are short, and it is impossible to pay for 30 years.”
The netizen “I don’t want to work overtime in 2020” asked, “Can this be understood as a breach of contract? There was no provision for 30 years when the payment was made before.
The public questioned: The national nucleic acid campaign has bottomed out medical insurance?
Local governments have issued policies to extend the payment period of medical insurance. What are the driving factors?
Mr. Mao, a researcher on social welfare in China, told Radio Free Asia that the medical insurance fund is insufficient, and the news that the payment period of medical insurance premiums will be gradually extended has been circulating for a long time.
He said, “The cost of nucleic acid testing in various places is paid from the medical insurance fund. They have exhausted the medical insurance premiums paid by employees and have to delay the payment of medical insurance premiums to make up for it. This has a great impact on ordinary people, because Invisibly, you will have to pay 15 more years.”
Mr. Gao believes that since the outbreak of the epidemic three years ago, the Chinese government has spent more than 300 billion yuan on nucleic acid testing, which comes from the medical insurance fund. He said, “There is not much money for medical insurance, otherwise it will not skyrocket all of a sudden, there must be a problem with the funds.”
Zhang Yang said that with the current medical insurance fund balance of 3.6 trillion yuan and normalized nucleic acid testing, if no corresponding measures are taken, the medical insurance balance will be maintained for up to three years. Health insurance beneficiaries are civil servants, not ordinary residents.
“Increasing the minimum payment period for medical insurance in many places” has recently become a hot topic. The netizen “I’m Lu Ziye” said, “After two years of clearing, the medical insurance payment will be doubled. Anyway, everyone’s money is reasonably put into their own pockets. Who doesn’t want to, not to mention there are people who are grateful to Dade.” “paddingdu” said, “Why do you think free nucleic acid testing is just another way to collect money.”
“It will be 4,000 tomorrow,” said, “After three years of PCR across the country, medical insurance is really out of money. People born in the 1970s will gradually retire and the number of births will decrease, and social security will definitely not be able to withstand it. Accidental social endowment insurance may also be raised to 25 to 30 years.”
Responsible editor: Sun Yun#