This week, the minister announced a reduction in the reimbursement rate for medicines by Social Security by 5% next year, as well as in the coverage of medical consultations.
« This concerns all medications, except those which are, today, 100% covered by health insurance » she detailed on RTL.
« These are medicines, in fact, very expensive, very often reserved for serious illnesses, often innovative medicines too. “, such as cancer treatments, she said.
Likewise, consultations are less well reimbursed “ will not concern all French people ». « That is to say that the 13 million French people who are long-term ill will continue to have free care and free medicines. », assured Geneviève Darrieussecq.
For others, complementary health insurance providers have already warned that these transfers would result in an increase in contributions requested from policyholders.
« I ask them (the mutual societies, editor's note) to find a balance that is acceptable so that we can simply continue to protect the French “, said the minister, recognizing that the government could not prevent them from increasing their prices.
Rationalize medical transport
Another economic avenue, mentioned in Le Parisien on Thursday by the Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand: tightening the rules for medical transport by taxi, which costs health insurance 3 billion per year.
« I think that here too, we must be rational, that there can be shared travel for example, an agreement » with health insurance, estimated the minister, referring to a “ dizzying increase » of these expenses.
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Asked about the risks of drug shortages, which are getting worse from year to year in the country, Geneviève Darrieussecq recalled that measures have been taken “ to try to limit them ».
« We do everything so that there are none “, she assured, without being able to promise it.
With AFP
