People who work part -time and affect a subsidy for health insurance may tremble. The great Valais council accepted on Tuesday at the raclette (64 yes, 61 no), a postulate charging the Council of State to analyze by which criteria the work rate could be taken into account in the calculation of individual premium reductions. “It is contrary to the individual responsibility for reducing your work schedule, but not to assume the financial consequences,” argued Olivier Imboden (the center).
The center and the UDC voted for the text and, in their own, they have a majority. The PLR and the left were opposed. For the PLR, the implementation is impossible. Ditto on the side of the PS: “How are you going to set the criteria?” Asked the deputy Émilie Teixeira. “I know a young woman who suffers from multiple sclerosis and who can only work four days a week. The part-time is not always that the search for personal development, “criticized Marie-Claude Schöpfer-Pfaffen, of the Neo Party. Likewise for people who take care of children or relatives.
The discussion revolved around the mechanism in Valais: citizens do not need to request the subsidy, it is automatically paid based on tax data. “People work 80% and would like to work 100%, but their business does not allow them. There are a multitude of situations that should be analyzed on a case -by -case basis. If we were to do an individual evaluation, it would be a gigantic bureaucratic burden, “warned the State Councilor Mathias Reynard (PS).
Especially since means of limiting abuses exist. “A person who has a sabbatical year, for example, is already excluded,” he said. There are also a posteriori checks. last year, 500,000 francs were reimbursed. This was not enough for the majority. “If we want to obtain community funds, we must explain why. We do not ask for rigid controls, but a social and pragmatic solution, ”insisted Olivier Imboden.
The Council of State must now present a relationship with proposals for criteria to exclude certain persons from the right to subsidies.
Refused at the federal level
The national councilor Philippe Nantermod (PLR/VS) had asked that taking into account the work rate in the calculation be provided at national level. The Federal Council was opposed to it, judging that such a measure would encroach too much on the sovereignty of the cantons, which are free to integrate this criterion or not. During the vote, last September, the fronts were different only during the voting of the day in Valais. There, the UDC and the PLR were alone to defend the measure. This had not been enough against the releases of the left, the center and the green’liberals.
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