Al-Marsad newspaper: The writer, Talal Al-Qashqari, has called for applying medical insurance to retirees and transferring it to the public sector for the benefit required by their circumstances.
Nationalization of pensioners
Al-Qashqari said, in his article entitled “Nationalization of retirees..!!”, which was published in the Al-Madina newspaper: “The title of the article consists of two words, namely (nationalization) and ( pensioners), and a third word averages them, God willing, in the folds of the article. public sector for a public interest necessitated by necessity and circumstance, and the word (retired) is known, of course, to near and far, and means employees who are off the workhorses; when they have reached the statutory retirement age.
Health insurance
And he continued: “As for the word that mediates the two words, I suggest that it be: (insurance), so that the title of the article becomes: (Nationalization of pensioners’ insurance), and I mean the medical insurance that pensioners they need more than anything, yet most of them – if not all – are still – without medical insurance, either from their bodies where they were employed, so their insurance cards were withdrawn from them upon retirement , or by the Pension and Social Insurance Corporation, and either refer to dispensaries and government hospitals with their overcrowding and long appointments that do not suit their health condition, or deduct a portion A large amount of their pension wages for treatment, and originally, how much is sufficient for their salaries which are less than that of their work and have not increased, even by a riyal, for many years, intervals does it give you big price hikes in everything, including the prices of care?
Analysis and surgery
And he added: “In addition to the modest discounts granted to them by private clinics and hospitals, which are almost limited to 50% for the visit, the cost of which has increased exponentially compared to the previous one, so much so that the cost after the reduction becomes useless , and the examination is not all in the treatment, since there are x-rays, tests and surgeries. in the evening after paying debts and bills, and buying house bills … and treatment.
conditions of retirees
And he continued: “So, and this is the situation, I would like us to nationalize pensioners’ insurance, and transfer it to the property of the fatherland, for a public interest necessitated by the needs and circumstances of pensioners, and what a beautiful word (nationalization ) if we replace the letter M with the letter N, so it becomes and becomes (insurance) for pensioners”.
