With its “ racing heart problems ”, and cholesterol “ who are not getting along », Maryse, 78 years old, is a “ cfaithful bond », she quips, from the pharmacy on rue Loubon to Belle de Mai. With her eyes at the counter, she counts the 17 boxes of prescription medications. “ I don't want this one, those neither, the others I know I have to. »
For 12 years she “ drags these old diseases “, Maryse saw the cost of the remainder payable on certain medications “ a little increase “. And this week she was “ taken by a bad cold, but since the aerosol is no longer reimbursed ”, and that “ it's still 6 euros, well we'll do without it “, she justifies. Retired from the household with a “ petite pension “, she monitors her expenses” to the cent, because inflation is on everything, from potatoes to electricity ». The pharmacist from this popular neighborhood hands him two bags filled with his prescriptions and confirms: “ It's every day that customers refuse certain medications, which have already been partially reimbursed. “. For example, she designates a box, “ increased from 3.20 to 5 euros this year with 1.95 euros not covered by social security ».
This professional, whose clientele is more than 80% made up of CMU and AME beneficiaries, does not “ do not think that the latter will be impacted by the measure, and this is quite normal, otherwise the poorest would no longer have access to care “. But she fears that the new increase in consultations with specialists poses an additional risk to the health of patients. “ Many do not take third-party payment, and making an advance of 80 to 100 euros for a cardiologist is extremely complicated when you have very little income. »
Leaving a pharmacy in 5 Avenues, Anne-Cécile, 53, laments “ the creation of a multi-speed health system that divides society when we were all equal in a waiting room before “. Over the past ten years, she has seen her income “ more and more nibbled » by the budget that it is forced to devote to it. “ My mother has just entered a nursing home, struck too early by Alzheimer's disease and her retirement is over there, but I have to supplement the care by around a hundred euros every month. “. Furthermore, to cover the orthodontic costs of the youngest of her three children, “ i.e. 300 euros per quarter » to those of the largest and herself, as well as to her own dental needs, « the most poorly reimbursed, but essential », this logistician opted “ for the best coverage offered by my company's mutual insurance company, therefore the most expensive monthly payment ».
« Another poorly executed project “, considers the manager of the neighboring pharmacy, ” in the end, it is still on the back of the insured that the budgetary savings will be made ».
When Minister Geneviève Darrieussecq mentions a “ slippage of 1.2 billion euros » expenditure on medicines this year, he underlines “ abuses at all levels: from the abuse of patients who consult for 5 boxes of paracetamol to the excess fees of practitioners, or those who charge the mule by prescribing long lists like the arm of medications “. And he regrets that the proposed solutions participate “ a little more decline in the public health service in favor of large private laboratories “. These measures are in short only a new ” amplification of the piece by piece dismantling of the system of solidarity that the world envied us », denounces Roselyne Garcia, retiree and trade unionist at Solidaires.
