“There is no question of there being an AME subject” in the future text, maintains the Minister of Health

Geneviève Darrieussecq also ensures that freezing funds allocated to the AME as part of the 2025 budget is not a solution in the face of criticism from the far right.

“There is no question that there is a subject [sur] State medical aid in immigration law“what is the government preparing for the start of next year, argues Wednesday October 16 on France Inter Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister of Health and Access to Care. She specifies that if necessary”review things from the sidelines“, this can be done”in a regulatory manner“.

In general, Geneviève Darrieussecq is once again unfavorable to a “suppression“of the AME and wants to limit possible modifications only”at the margins“. “There are a few lines that we can move, but that won’t change the general direction“, she affirms. The Minister of Health insists on the importance of this aid which allows undocumented immigrants to access care. She sees it as a “subject of public health, or even public health“.

She also returns to the freezing of credits devoted to AME as part of the 2025 budget, recommended by Budget Minister Laurent-Saint-Martin. Geneviève Darrieussecq recalls that “ceiling letters“, sent to ministries this summer to detail the distribution of budgets, “advocated an increase“from the budget line, but that”the Minister of the Budget considered that there was no reason to move on to this increase“.

The Minister of Health assures that this freeze is not a response to criticism made by the far right. She also accuses the head of the National Rally.to use the AME as a scarecrow“. “These symbols put in front of the French are completely harmful“, she denounces, before adding that “the AME is the safest and most controlled budget of our Republic“.