Geneviève Darrieussecq informed the Senate this Monday, November 18, that Social Security would only cover 65% of the price of consultations, and would also increase the co-payment on reimbursement of medications.
Less well-reimbursed medical consultations and an increased out-of-pocket cost for medications: enough to add to the French health bill in 2025. Speaking this Monday, November 18 in front of senators about to take up the financing bill of Social Security for 2025, the Minister of Health, Geneviève Darrieussecq, lifted the veil on the government's latest decisions to reduce the trend increase in health insurance expenditure by 5 billion euros in 2025. This is that facing the indignation of health professionals and user associations of the health care system, the government has revised (a little) its copy.
Catch-up effect
Thus, the 10-point increase in the co-payment (the rest payable) on medical consultations announced in mid-October is finally reduced to 5 points. Clearly, Social Security, which currently reimburses 70% of the cost of a consultation, will only cover 65% in 2025. Only patients with long-term illness (ALD) will continue to be fully reimbursed, at -beyond the flat rate contribution of 2 euros for each consultation which applies to everyone. Through this gesture, the government hopes to avoid forgoing care. However, the account for him is not there: the measure only allows him to count on 900 million euros in savings instead of the 1.1 billion expected.
Hence an unfortunate catch-up effect, this time on medications. Patients, who since April have already had to pay a deductible of 1 euro on each box of product sold in pharmacies, will also see the share reimbursed by social security drop in 2025: “The co-payment on medicines will increase by 5%”, concedes Darrieussecq. ALD patients and the most modest, eligible for complementary solidarity health insurance, will not be affected. Others will have to rely on their mutual insurance to cover the additional cost.
At least this decision has the merit of consistency. This is because the French consume more medicines than their European neighbors, and not always wisely. To change habits that are harmful to public health and ruinous to its accounts, health insurance has just launched a vast information campaign with an evocative slogan: “The right treatment is not necessarily medication.”
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