After the Minister of Health Moshe Arbel sharply rejected the proposal to finance the extension of medical insurance for Ukrainian refugees at the expense of the already meager budget of the Ministry of Health, the government found a more decent solution: on Tuesday evening, the ministers approved by telephone vote a cut in the budget of all departments by 0.06% . Kan”.
This money will be used to finance medical insurance and the continuation of social assistance to refugees. Insurances are promised to be restored retroactively – from August 9, the date when Finance Minister Smotrych stopped their funding.
On Sunday, ministers from ultra-orthodox parties demanded that the prime minister urgently solve the problem with medical insurance for refugees – as minister Meir Porush explained, “so that the Hasidim do not have to pay for Kyiv’s displeasure.” As a result, the draft decision was proposed to the ministers: to pay for insurance at the expense of cutting the budget of the Ministry of Health.
