Those who lead us have established what a big pension means: 3,000 lei. This is how Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said in the press conference announcing the additional money taxation measures. Pensioners passing through this threshold will pay a health contribution of 10%, a percentage that will be applied to the amount that passes this threshold. The money will reach the budget of the National Health Insurance House. For example, to a man who has a pension of 3,100 lei, his monthly income will decrease by 10 lei. At the larger pensions, the taxation will be higher, directly proportional. At 3,500 lei, the pension will decrease by 50 lei. At 5,000 lei, it will be reduced by 200 lei. An area calculation shows that 200 million lei will be added monthly from this taxation of pensioners, an exempted category since the payment of the health contribution. At the end of 2025, we will have 1 billion lei in the budget of 77 billion lei established for CNAS, from the calculation of ZF. There are 1.7 million pensioners who have monthly pensions of over 3,000 lei, from the data from the National Pension House, related to the month of May 2025. The prime minister does not say how he came to the conclusion that 3,000 lei is a big pension. When most pensioners also calculate their last lion, how was this threshold, based on what criteria? In addition, what guarantees is that money will be used effectively in the health system? That when they reach hospitals, pensioners with large pensions of 3,000 lei will not be able to pay dressings, buy medicines because the hospital does not have them? And maybe the contribution of 10 lei to a pension of 3,100 lei does not have an impact to revolt. But let's not get it out of context, as the governors seem to do. The context? Increases in food prices, some drugs, utilities that pensioners are not exempt, but will feel full. There do not seem to a few 10 lei in minus at the pension of 3,100 lei taken as an example? How small does it become a «big» pension?
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