Thomas Fatome details on franceinfo the avenues for the 2023 budget with substantial savings to be made on medicines and the fight against fraud in particular.
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In its Social Security financing bill for 2023, the government estimates expenditure linked to Covid-19 at one billion euros next year, against 11 billion in 2022. A provision which, according to the High Council of Finance (HCFP) “risks being very insufficient”. “The envelope will increase if necessary”, provides on franceinfo, Thomas Fatôme, Managing Director of the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam).
“There is also no question of giving up testing people or vaccinating those who need it,” adds–he. Health insurance has planned several serious ways of saving and in particular more than a billion euros on drug-related expenses. “For drugs prescribed in the city in 2022, spending increases by 7.5%, explains Thomas Fatôme. We are working a lot on the proper use of drugs: developing bio-similar drugs which are the same but cheaper, continuing to develop generics, lowering the prescription of antibiotics.