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Budget 2025: health costs in the crosshairs
Budget 2025: health costs in the crosshairs
(franceinfo)
Regarding the 2025 budget, the savings, 40 billion planned, affect everyone, starting with health spending. Social Security should only reimburse 60% of the price of the consultation instead of 70%.
Medical consultations, currently reimbursed at 70% by Health Insurance, could see their coverage reduced to 60% from next year. A cost-saving measure that is widely appreciated: “We have to get the money from somewhere”estimates the customer of a pharmacy, who still says “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 Mutualité française, who adds that “all contracts will necessarily be impacted”. To the 5.5% increase already programmed, there would be an additional increase of up to 2.5% linked to this measure, which would bring the possible increase to 8% in 2025.
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