Daily "Finance" critical of planned progressive health insurance
Stripped of its mystification and solidarity, healthcare is no different from a car, hotel room or a service, and its price does not depend on how much money a person makes, the business daily points out.
Healthcare has a market too but it is distorted for many reasons, from corruption to the fact that the healthcare system itself creates demand for its services and prices are soaring, the paper says.
Moreover, Finance calls it perverted when solidarity is falsely claimed to be a tool to fight lobbies, while it is lobbies that will benefit the most from such false solidarity.
The proposal to charge health services according to a person's earnings, not by their price should be called a health tax act, not health services and health insurance act, the daily says, adding that instead of offering good services the state will only steal more money from the people.
Prime Minister Miro Cerar and Health minister Milojka Kolar Celarc are awarding corruption and inefficiency in healthcare, maintaining the status quo and rights of deviations in healthcare instead of the patients.
What they are doing is a slap in the face of all users of healthcare services since the costs of healthcare and its accessibility will not improve by funnelling more money into it and by having people with higher salaries pay more.
Finance says that the same principle could be applied in many areas, like a real estate tax that does not consider the market value of the property or salary-based road fines, although how much money you earn makes no difference and driving 20 km/h too fast is just as wrong for everyone.
But you would not be paying for speeding, but rather for having more money than politicians think you deserve, the paper argues under Mirocare: Let's Pay for Bread and Houses According to How Much We Make!
In Slovenia it is not better to be rich than poor, the daily argues, adding that there are no really rich people in Slovenia by global standards anyway.