Servini stood nearby, listening to their conversation with a smile, her heart full of satisfaction.
Although the thin man named Ronnie still winced at the thought of paying five gold coins a year to join the medical insurance system, Shack's persuasion had genuinely swayed him. He began seriously considering how to enroll his entire family in the medical security system.
Had she not wanted to keep her identity hidden, Servini would have loved to step forward herself and explain this welfare policy, which Xu Yi had proposed and which she had decided, after careful consideration, to make her top priority.
Originally, Servini had intended to spare Bunta City's residents even the annual five-gold-coin contribution and have the city treasury cover every expense.
But Xu Yi had stopped her.
Perhaps in the initial stages, Bunta City's residents would stick to their old habits and not seek professional medical help when they fell ill. But once the medical security system was truly established and people realized how little treatment cost, the vast majority would certainly choose to make full use of it.
If that happened, no matter how healthy Bunta City's finances were, its treasury probably would not be able to shoulder the enormous expenditure.
Even now, with the annual contribution set at five gold coins per person on Xu Yi's recommendation, the City Lord's Manor estimated that the hospital it had built outside the city just last month would require nearly two hundred thousand gold coins in annual funding alone.
To ensure the standard of care at the Bunta City Citizens' Hospital, Servini had even personally invited several highly skilled doctors from Anvilmar City.
Of course, the salaries offered to these doctors were extremely generous. Even the lowest exceeded a thousand gold coins a year.
Naturally, that money counted toward the