2024-01-16 23:19:36
Emmanuel Macron defends the doubling of “medical franchises”
“Empower yourself” the French: this is the argument put forward by Emmanuel Macron to defend the doubling of medical deductibles, these sums remaining the responsibility of patients when they buy medicines or consult a doctor. Questioned on this sensitive subject by a journalist, the Head of State clearly announced that he was in favor of this lever for savings on health expenditure, while the executive has been procrastinating for six months on this measure which affects the power of purchase.
“At the moment when I see what our compatriots can spend on telephone plans, daily life, thinking that we are going to go from 50 cents to 1 euro for a box of medicines, I do not have the feeling that we are committing a terrible crime”he said, 50 euro cents being the amount not reimbursed on each box of medicine set in 2008, under the Sarkozy five-year term, and which has not changed in fifteen years.
“It’s a good measure”, continued Mr. Macron, while this avenue put forward by Bercy in June 2023 should make it possible to generate 800 million euros in savings per year. The head of state affirmed that the ” ceiling “ of 50 euros per year and per patient, which exists until now, should be maintained, which should allow people with illnesses long-term – in other words, to chronically ill people – not to be too impacted by this increase in “remains dependent”.
Before his resignation in mid-December, the former Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, had quantified the impact of doubling deductibles at an additional 17 euros, on average, per person per year. The amount may seem modest; it is no less controversial: the doubling of medical deductibles has been denounced, for months, as a “sickness tax” in the ranks of caregivers and patients, but also on the left of the Hemicycle where the deputies continued to demand, this fall, during the examination of the Social Security budget, that the government lay down its cards and be transparent on this measure.
Mattea Battaglia
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