“There is no question of touching the AME,” says the Minister of Health

“There is no question of touching State Medical Aid”says Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister of Health and Access to Care in franceinfo evening Friday October 4. “I want everyone to be reassured on this point”she adds while Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior, said on September 23 that he wanted to review the criteria for obtaining State Medical Aid (AME) for people in an irregular situation in France.

“I am a doctor, I talk about medicine and public health”she continues, insisting on the fact that the AME is “also insurance on the health of the French, in particular to avoid certain contagions”. The report by Claude Evin and Patrick Stefanini, made public in December 2023, “said very simply that it is a useful device and well controlled by health insurance very strictly”explains Geneviève Darrieussecq. The minister calls for “not to have taboos” on this subject “but no fantasy either”.