Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a Cabinet meeting
7 July 2008
Вступительное слово В.В.Путина на заседании Президиума Правительства
07.07.2008
Vladimir Putin: Let us first exchange current information. Ms Golikova has been to Kaliningrad.
Tatyana Golikova: That's right.
Vladimir Putin: Could you tell about the public healthcare there?.
Tatyana Golikova: Together with the representatives of some Russian regions which are implementing a pilot public healthcare project I visited the Kaliningrad Region and held a conference there on Thursday. The pilot project will be completed in July. We have already transferred all the funds to its participants and we had an opportunity to review the tentative results of the pilot project, which is basically about the transition of clinical and preventive institutions to single-channel financing.
We have identified several positive elements during the course of this pilot project. The purpose of the meeting was to translate all the positive developments in the Russian regions into proposals on modernizing the healthcare system, which is what we have been working on. We have agreed about it with the regions. They will send us all their proposals shortly, both the policy proposals and proposals on amending legislation in the field of mandatory medical insurance.
In addition, as part of modernization and the transition to single-channel financing, the issues of remuneration in the regions and possible abandonment of the single wage scale were touched upon. Most of the regions engaged in the pilot projects have already scrapped the single wage scale. Most of them have expressed the wish that the federal Government allow them greater freedom in making decisions on incentive payments. At present the existing regulations constrain them in making decisions on wages. But I hope that shortly after these proposals come in we will be able to sum them up and present to you in the shape of complete documents.
Vladimir Putin: We have discussed this problem in a broader context. One of the issues to be discussed is that because some regions have given up the single wage scale, we need to have an idea of the comparative size of remuneration for different categories of workers. So we have agreed that the Government will prepare the necessary methodological recommendations. I urge you to speed that work up.
Tatyana Golikova: Yes. In accordance with the instructions you have given earlier we are to submit proposals on amendments to the text of Resolution No.605 to the Government today. The resolution has been sent to all the federal agencies concerned. We hope to get the final opinion today and submit it to the Government. We expect that the Government will make a decision on the issue quickly. Mr Zhukov has signed today the schedule for the transition of federal institutions to the new system of remuneration. All the colleagues have intensified this work in line with the instructions issued at the previous Government meeting.
Vladimir Putin: What is the situation, Mr Zhukov?
Alexander Zhukov: The timetable is tough. The biggest part of the work has to be completed in July-August. I would ask you to try to meet all the deadlines set in the timetable. Otherwise we won't be able to make the decision by September, and that is the final deadline for introducing the new remuneration system at all the federal institutions, for concluding contracts on a new basis.
Vladimir Putin: In this connection I would like to ask all of you to keep up the momentum. The law on developing housing construction was passed last Friday. It is another serious step, a new stage in implementing the national project of housing construction as a whole. Mr Zhukov, would you please comment on it?
Alexander Zhukov: Our construction industry ahs been growing, including housing construction.
I have looked at the data for the past five months. On the whole the amount of construction work increased by 124%, as against 119% last year. Unfortunately, the commissioning of new housing last year increased by 141% on the same period of 2006, while this year the increase is only 106%. This is partly due to the rising cost of mortgage loans, which has forced down demand. Another important reason is the lack of land with infrastructure suitable for housing development. It is with an eye to developing that basis and the land market, and to making housing construction cheaper that the law on promoting housing construction was passed. It regulates the activities of the Federal Housing Construction Fund. In effect, it is another development institution being created in the country in order to develop the market of affordable housing.
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