Currently, company employees and government workers pay premiums based on income, while the self-employed pay a flat rate.

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It covered workers in commerce and industry only (leaving out the self-employed, farmers, service workers and government employees), plus their spouses and dependents.

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Just behind the CNN's Cairo bureau lies the Bulaq neighborhood, a ramshackle area of dirt alleys and crumbling houses inhabited by factory workers, government employees (many of whom had to hold second and third jobs to scrape by), small storeowners, etc.

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