Thursday 17 March 2011

432. The Ministry of Finance does not like patients

The government is preparing to pass in Parliament and referred to the Brussels Programme of the Stability and Growth 2010 - 2013 (PEC). A careful reading of the guidelines that underlie the preparation of the final PEC overlap, immediately, a general increase in taxes paid by each family, by introducing mechanisms that will make indirect taxation substantially reduce the annual repayments.

Thus, the equitable limitation for deductible expenses and tax benefits in place of taxes on individuals (IRS), taking into account the taxpayer's income level is associated with the idea of further reducing the tax benefits to families who have, For example, higher health costs.

Unfortunately, the government seems to want to come to use taxes to penalize those who most need health care, drastically worsening the equality of all portuguese in access to medical care.

Will the government already knows who will be people who will be sick? Using people's health budget to fill holes created in other sectors can only be done by low politics who has not any notion that health is not something you can choose. Unfortunately it was not enough as the dismantling of many services provided by the National Health Service; from now will be also punished those who did not choose to be sick, not to mention the already chronically ill.

Unfortunately, the health of portuguese is actually to be getting sicker.

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