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Health insurance: health costs in the crosshairs
Budget 2025: health costs in the government’s crosshairs
(France news)
If the tax increase should target the richest, the budgetary savings of 40 billion should affect everyone. Focus on savings in health spending.
Medical consultations, currently reimbursed at 70% by Health Insurance, could see their coverage reduced to 60% from 2024. A cost-saving measure that is appreciated in various ways: “We have to get the money from somewhere“, estimates a customer of a pharmacy, who still says to herself “shocked” by this decision.
As a mechanical consequence of this planned disengagement from Health Insurance, the share of reimbursement from mutual insurance companies would increase from 30 to 40%. A significant additional cost for complementary health insurance. “For a full year, it will be 1.2 billion more to pay. warns Éric Chenut, president of the Mutualité française, who adds that “all contracts will necessarily be impacted”.
To the 5.5% increase already programmed, an additional 2.5% increase linked to this measure would be added, which would bring the possible increase to 8% in 2025.
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