The government announced on Thursday five billion euros in savings on the health budget next year. One of the main saving measures will concern the reimbursement of consultations with doctors and midwives.
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According to the budget bill announced Thursday 10, Health Insurance will no longer reimburse 70% of the consultation with the doctor or midwife but 60%, and mutual insurance companies will pay the rest. Clearly, in December, the price of the consultation must increase to 30 euros with the general practitioner and Health Insurance had to reimburse 21 euros and mutual insurance companies 9 euros. With the new measure, next year, Health Insurance will only reimburse 18 euros and mutual insurance will increase to 12 euros.
The 4 to 5% of French people who do not have mutual insurance will have to pay these 12 euros out of their pocket. However, assures Geneviève Darrieussecq, the Minister of Health, the measure will not penalize the sickest and the poorest. “This does not concern people in ALD [Affection de longue durée], this does not concern the people who are at C2S either [Complémentaire santé solidaire]. The most vulnerable groups are protected.”assures the minister.
In reaction to this budgetary measure, mutual insurance companies risk increasing their prices. However, the latter had already seen an increase of 8% on average this year.