Answer: as a whole fund pays primary medical treatment every year to expend ceiling to be this locality worker year 4 times of average wage. Was 2000 2. 50 thousand yuan.

答：统筹基金每年支付基本医疗费最高限额为本地职工年平均工资的4倍。2000年为2.5万元。

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Since the adjustment of the covered earnings ceiling depends on nominal wage growth, if inflation takes off or if real wages grow even more rapidly, the covered earnings ceiling will grow at an even faster pace.

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And the fact that his nominal (face value) covered earnings is being compared with my earnings up through 60, albeit indexed by wage growth through age 60, means that I and everyone else in my boat that earns above the ceiling can benefit, potentially big time, from working very late in life.

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