The president of PiS returns to the hot topic of doctors' salaries, which warms the imagination of voters, at least in his imagination. Last weekend we learned that thanks to access to government sources, the president has an idea of how much doctors earn, and these are considerable amounts - 75,000 a month, 900,000 a year.
Felieton
Where to hit to make it resonate
Published Dec. 5, 2022 09:56
You have to agree with one thing: the president knows (and is probably helped in this knowledge by public opinion polls, paid handsomely from taxpayers' money), where to hit to make it resonate. High inflation and a real decrease in the average Kowalski's earnings must be bad for croissants who earn several times more than the national average, which is unattainable for a random Pole.
A new thread emerges in these stories. When you carefully follow them and analyze together what the president of PiS and the minister of health say (Adam Niedzielski heroically echoed the leader of the United Right on Sunday evening on Polsat), a picture emerges of doctors earning well or relatively well (there are smaller amounts at stake, a dozen or twenty thousand zlotys a month, although this is not the salary that Kowalski receives from working in one place for 40 hours a week, but let's not be meticulous) who are greedy and want more. And the government, out of concern for quality (it's hard not to ask about the fate of the act on quality, the minister mentioned a few days ago that he hopes to pass it in the new year...) will put an end to this pursuit of money, making priests an example for doctors.
Let's leave the digressions as to what exactly doctors should imitate clergymen to the creators of memes - as usual, they immediately went to work. It is about a sense of mission, i.e. working for an idea - so close to PiS politicians, who, after all, have always entered politics out of a sense of mission, and landing on supervisory boards and management boards of state-owned companies was (and is), one might say, an undesirable political reaction.
Doctors will be outraged, the media will investigate who earns and how much, who and where had their hands shaking from overwork (although the president did not hesitate to add one more thread, interjecting that his first association was alcohol abuse, by the way, where did this obsession with necking?) and maybe no one will notice the report of the OECD and the European Commission, which will have its premiere on December 5 at noon? Maybe, busy with side threads eagerly tossed by decision-makers, we won't find time to analyze what's really important?
And somehow it will be.
