China is also considering raising the retirement age; Photo: File
Beijing: China has halved free medical care for senior citizens due to funding cuts.
According to the international news agency, the medical facilities of retired citizens in China were reduced, against which the protest movement “Grey Hair Movement” started across the country.
After the protests against strict Covid restrictions in November last year, China is now facing another nationwide protest movement called “Grey Hair Movement”.
Thousands of senior citizens have taken to the streets since January to protest major cuts in health insurance payments to senior citizens on a monthly basis.
Along with the reduction in health insurance payments, the Chinese government also plans to raise the retirement age in an attempt to make up for the shortfall in public medical insurance funds.
Government sources say that public insurance funds have dried up in the last 3 years after paying for mass testing, zero-covid policy, mandatory quarantine and other epidemic control measures.
17 of China’s 31 provinces have revealed that they have spent a lot of money on fighting Corona, but it is still unclear how much China has spent in total on maintaining its strict zero-covid policy and where this money came from. has come
The cost of the zero-covid policy can be estimated from the fact that China’s richest province, Guangdong, spent 711 billion yuan on vaccination and testing in 2022, while Zhejiang and Beijing spent 43.5 billion yuan and 30 billion, respectively. Yuan spent.
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