Volodin: Amendments to the Constitution will fill declarative norms

Thanks to the amendments to the Constitution, the declarative norm of the social state acquires filling, said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. Look, in health care. This is a guarantee for high-quality, affordable, effective medical care. In the field of social, the norm used to be a declarative social state. Today, this norm of the social state has acquired filling, the state guarantees: if the salary, then not less than the minimum subsistence minimum, if the pension, then with compulsory indexation. This is also extremely important, Volodin said on the Russia 24 television channel. He stressed that these guarantees will place an additional burden on the state, on state institutions. Moreover, according to Volodin, the adoption of the amendments will allow a Russian citizen to use medical care, regardless of his medical insurance. These guarantees will already make it possible to protect a person, solve his problems, regardless of whether he has medical insurance or not, the State Duma speaker said, contrasting the norms with those in force in the United States. As previously reported by the news agency, the All-Russian vote on amendments to the Constitution will be held on July 1.