Increase in deductibles, long-term illnesses (ALD)… The new Minister of Health, Stéphanie Rist, assured this Friday, October 17, that the measures provided for in the budget will be debated and that her task will be to “protect the most fragile.”
“In the text proposed to Parliament, an increase in limited medical deductibles is foreseen, that is, effectively an increase in the rest to be paid by patients,” acknowledged the minister, a rheumatologist by profession, interviewed on France 2.
“They should know (…) that the most fragile patients, pregnant women, young people, those who have the solidarity contribution, do not have to pay these deductibles,” he argued during his first speech since his appointment.
“My job as Minister of Health (…) will be to protect the most vulnerable,” she insisted.
“All this will be discussed in parliament”
Asked about a measure in the Finance bill that plans to revise the admission criteria for long-term illnesses (ALD), she responded that “if we protect people well beforehand, if we do prevention, there will be fewer people who (will go) to ALD. All this will be discussed in parliament.”
What will be reimbursed “will obviously be defined with the High Health Authority and with the caregivers,” he wanted to reassure the minister, also a Renaissance deputy.
The League Against Cancer has highlighted several measures in the Lecornu 2 government’s Social Security PLF 2026, which it says target “the most vulnerable patients”.
He criticizes in particular “the expansion of fixed contributions and medical deductibles, deductibles that the draft decrees (which could be ratified soon) already foresee doubling.”
The association also criticizes the possible revision of the criteria for admission to the long-term care regime, which, according to it, “presents an inevitable risk of increasing economic inequalities.”
Ms. Rist also returned on Friday to the project of establishing a “birth leave.”
This is “an additional permit that families and parents will be able to choose.” It will allow “fathers and mothers to take one or two months of leave after the birth of their child” and will be “shorter but better paid” than parental leave.
Source: BFM TV
