With the budget project, which voted against PP and Citizens, 5,500 pensioners who receive less than 11,200 euros a year would see eliminated the pharmaceutical copayment imposed by the government of Mariano Rajoy.
In March 2012, the Government of Mariano Rajoy approved that retirees had to pay 10% of the medicines.
This meant that, the citizens who needed it the most, our elders would pay twice for the same medicines.
In the draft of the General Budgets of 2019, a heading was included to revert this situation.
Thus, the party of Citizens and the Popular Party voted against starting to reduce the copayment for those pensioners with the lowest incomes, those who do not exceed 11,200 euros of income per year.
If we download the data to Cieza, we are talking about 5,500 retired people who do not exceed the 11,200 euros per year of pension income.
5,500 ciezanos and ciezanas who will have to pay for their medicines twice, what they paid during their working life and taxes, and what they have to pay again when they buy medicines in the campaign.
Socialist sources emphasize the lack of empathy towards our elders of PP and Citizens.
"Not working to reverse the cuts and, therefore, improve the quality of life of those who have kept families in times of crisis is to attempt to coexist and sustainability of our system." Pensioners have already paid for all medicines with those that are treated, now have to reinvest that money in improving their day to day ".
Source: PSOE Cieza