In May 2010, the State Duma adopted a bill "On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in Connection with Improving the Legal Status of State (Municipal) Institutions". You won’t guess by name, but according to this law, the entire Russian budget sphere will now live.
Around this bill, many copies have already been broken. The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin tried to put a point in the debates at the presentation of the budget message for 2013-2015. He asked the political forces not to speculate on the topic and expressed the view that the new principles of financing budgetary institutions do not cancel free medicine and education.
But it is difficult to agree with the president not only in full, but also in part. If you follow the logic of the law, it becomes obvious that funding for schools and hospitals, which has always been in short supply, will be cut even further. The state will pay institutions only a certain order, a certain amount of services, and everything else will have to be earned independently. In education, this is embodied in the form of an educational standard, which at the time of adoption of the law looked as follows.
It was assumed that the student will receive two hours a week of lessons in Russian and English languages, mathematics and physical education, and another hour a week in history. Physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, music, drawing and other subjects, if desired, parents can pay. Experts estimate that a normal annual tuition for one child will cost the family 50-70 thousand rubles. Here it is necessary to make a reservation: the first three classes of education include the entire previous set of subjects, which the state guarantees to pay. But, nevertheless, in these conditions it is not necessary to talk about high-quality free education.
Roughly the same thing happens in medicine. In addition to everything, it must be added that, by their own will, the heads of educational and healthcare institutions become managers who are forced to earn a living for themselves, their employees, and for ensuring the livelihoods of their economy. What it will result in today is only a guess.
We have to admit that some medicine at the polyclinic level and some education to the initial level in the new conditions will be free. But Russians can get good medical help and deep knowledge only for money.
