A great frustration for thousands of patients. Eight months after its vote, the law was aimed at reducing the rest of the women affected by breast cancer remain unanswered, which feeds concerns about their destiny.
Definitely adopted in Parliament at the end of January, unanimously, promulgated on February 5, the text of the communist initiative requires four decrees and arrested to apply. Until now, none has been published, while the annual awareness of breast cancer detection, Pink October, began recently.
“In the pharmacy, they have to pay, and they ask me what to do,” he continues, remembering that “they have already been tested by the disease and sometimes lack financial means.”
1,400 euros on average on average
With more than 61,000 new cases per year and more than 900,000 people affected in France, breast cancer is the most widespread female cancer. However, with the remaining remains of “1,400 euros on average”, the most precarious patients “renounce the care or products that are not taken care of or were not insufficiently reimbursed that proved to be too expensive,” the text rapporteur had stressed in January before the National Assembly, the Monnet Community Yannick.
The law voted establishes full health insurance management for the renewal of breast prostheses, dermropigmentation of areola or proper underwear.
It also establishes a package to buy prescribed but not reimbursed products, such as creams against drought or varnish to avoid falling to nails induced by certain treatments.
In theory, after the publication of a law, the implementation decrees must be taken rapidly, within six months, except in the deferred entry in force, as underlined at the end of 2022 by a circular of Elisabeth Borne, then Prime Minister. However, according to a calendar available online on the National Assembly website, the four decrees necessary to apply the law are not expected before December 2025.
“It’s not a gift”
There, “there is no content, or delay, interlocutor” in the application texts, Deplora Caroline Mercier, general manager of the Rose Up Association. “If you return to the bifurcations of flow of the future project of Social Security Financing Law and the announced decrease in health expenses, there is little hope,” it slips, while political instability increases uncertainties.
Questioned by AFP in the texts of the application, the Ministry of Health did not respond.
“If Pschitt (…) can create many disappointments. Women with breast cancer were waiting for this small breath of fresh air,” response to “a necessity,” says Caroline Mercier.
For Chalaine (who did not want to give his name), 38 years, who underwent a double mastectomy, it is about buying adequate underwear.
Jennifer, 37, hoped to benefit from the management of the medical tattoo of the areola and the nipple. After a double mastectomy and a reconstruction, he would like to claim his body, helped by this impulse, the tattoo that can cost 500 euros. The time that passes, fears that the law will never apply.
Senator Cathy Apourceau-Poly, who has written several times to the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and families, Catherine Vautrin, to claim the publication of decrees, the “incredible judges do not respect the Parliament”. Deputy Hadrien Clouet (LFI) considered in X that the Executive “now even strives to cancel the votes of the National Assembly.” Caroline Mercier wants to believe that “nothing is lost”, promising to “remain mobilized.”
Source: BFM TV
