The conspiracy by "Polish lords" against "undesirable people" was exposed by SB. Belarus Today columnist Andrei Mukavozchyk on October 27, 2025, on CTV's "Questions From Blondes" program.
"The brilliant plan by Poland's ruling authorities is quite simple. Already, by their calculations, roughly a third of budget funding [for public healthcare] in Poland goes to fugitives — to our ‘zmahary’ and Ukrainian neo-Banderites. And if, the Tusk supporters figure, they cut funding by that 30%, then these undesirable people in Poland won't be able to use the Polish lords' benefits," Mukavozchyk said.
Poland's 2026 budget does differ from this year's budget, but instead of cutting healthcare spending as the host claimed, Warsaw plans to boost it by 12%. In 2025, this line item in Poland's budget was 14 times larger than in Belarus' budget, despite the country's population being only four times larger than its eastern neighbor.
The only thing Poland's government cut in the healthcare budget was spending to cover certain medical services for Ukrainians in Poland who don't pay health insurance. In other words, for adult Ukrainian citizens who arrived in the country after the war began and received temporary protection status, emergency benefits were eliminated. Previously, they could use healthcare services on par with Poles, but unlike Poles, didn't pay for them.
Now Ukrainians need to either buy insurance or pay for individual services, such as dental visits, physical therapy, rehabilitation and some prescription drugs.
These changes don't affect Belarusians, because they never had the right to free healthcare anyway, just like other foreigners in Poland, except for Ukrainians.
Poland's Health Ministry estimated that the adopted changes will save about 30 million zlotys, or nearly 7 million euros, from October 2025 through March 2026. That's only a tenth of total healthcare spending for Ukrainian citizens budgeted for this period, and many services for them remain free.
