Each one historical event, incident, happening, circumstance, or condition, has its loyal mistress and its lawful wife, the first with the task to keep things in check for the existent competition and delude the public about the reality of things, and the second with the plans to come with time and claim reality as her own products of idea, finance, thought, and connections.
Each one group of people, or nation, or universe mankind, can be used in politics to create that social momentum that can turn the main wheel of history.
Each new social or political theory is created in its economic part for a specific region in the world and is adapted to the social characteristics of the people living there, or the national specifics are derived from and the economic axes are created for an economic development, and each population is made to believe that what every local person is engaged in the establishing of is a social policy created especially for his or her welfare.
In the line of such thinking, I am wondering about the logic of keeping the health care and health insurance reform on the scales of having been started and not having been finished.
Lots of pensioners who are, like me, health insured by the state, are obliged to pay a second health insurance if they do entrepreneur work to add to their pensions, when they have sales of course, and lots of pensioners who let restituted property, or have additional income, not only evade paying this double health insurance, but can avail of all the benefits which a tradesperson is forbidden because of having been classification into business, and business seen as always prosperous.
The blend of socialism and capitalism is most obvious in the sphere of small business in Bulgaria, maybe because the Bulgarians are a hard-working people on the whole, each one with somebody elses loyal mistress to stop him from making a successful step, and somebody elses wife to lawfully claim each one of the roads to be the property of her husband.
The government seems to be as pathetically lost about how to proceed with the health reform while taking into account the interests of the east, both north and south, and the interests of the west, both north and south, that one really feels for this class left on their own in the classroom to unravel- in the absence of the teacher and in competition with the class next door- a blackboard of unfamiliar formulae.
The result is raising the health insurance to eight per cent, which gives the health insurance fund my 19,20 levs plus 2 for bank transfer each month, which I have to pay from my monthly pension of 142 levs because I have no sales of my discs of poetry and fiction.
The alternative is for me to stop my self-publishing or for the parliament to pass laws that are connected much more with either socialism or capitalism, and are not socialist for the population that is in small business on a personal level, or capitalist for the state monopolists that are making the poor pay for the existence of the large corporations.
It is a happy circumstance that the law no more obliges the pensioners working as self-tradesmen, like those selling chewing gum and coffee in kiosks, to pay social insurance, but it is unfair even to the socialist model to have one person to pay for all, and all for one, if it is only a few who can use the service of a dentist, for example.
Obligatory health check-ups are not a solution, but obligatory personal health insurance accounts are, the first playing a trick on the wife of medical care, the second playing against its mistress.
V.P.Toucheva 13.05.2008 Sofia, Bulgaria
