DECRYPTION – While the cost of this system for illegal immigrants reaches 1.2 billion euros per year, the executive plans, through regulations, to review the scope of access.
Don’t do it without saying it or say it without doing it. The reform of state medical aid (AME), this generous system of covering the health costs of illegal migrants present in France, is a thorn in Matignon’s side. A life-size test of the ability to act of a government seeking a majority.
The AME now has close to half a million beneficiaries. For an annual cost reflecting the explosion of illegal immigration: 1.2 billion euros, or 0.5% of health expenditure included in the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS). And again, the account is not there, because other aid should in principle enter into the calculation.
In an information report submitted on May 17, 2023, the LR MP for Orne, Véronique Louwagie, then special rapporteur for the health mission at the National Assembly, was able to identify around ten devices contributing to the provision of healthcare provided to foreigners in an irregular situation…
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