2023-11-30 18:07:00
Of the average annual health expenditure of €3,773 per inhabitant in Belgium, only 81.2% is covered, i.e. a remaining cost of €687. This makes Belgium the seventh country in the EU where people have to pay the most out of pocket for their healthcare. In addition, hospital care is particularly poorly reimbursed, with an annual out-of-pocket cost of €204 per inhabitant, compared to only €35 in the rest of the EU.
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Concretely, Belgians pay 26.5% more in non-reimbursed health expenses than the average for EU countries. “In comparison, our German neighbors (€4,520) and Dutch (€3,985) are doing better, while the Luxembourgers (€3,660) and the French (€3,590) are doing slightly worse than us,” indicates Alexandre Desoutter, spokesperson at HelloSafe Belgium. For the rest, Belgium does a little better than the EU on the reimbursement of medicines (€130 non-reimbursed compared to €151 in the EU), but less well in terms of dental care (€84 compared to €49 remaining). dependent in the EU)”.
300,000 people deprived of BIM status
And according to the study, in 2019, 8.2% of low-income Belgians were still unable to meet their dental needs compared to just under 6% in the rest of the EU.
A proportion which has increased to one in four people who give up care for financial reasons, according to Solidaris. In partnership with the Présence et Action Culturelles movement, the socialist mutual is launching a campaign called “BIM, your rights at stake” with the aim of raising awareness of the BIM status (for “Beneficiaries of Increased Intervention”), but also to highlight the different causes of non-recourse to rights and its consequences for citizens and for society as a whole. And for good reason, in Belgium, 300,000 people are deprived of the BIM status to which they would nevertheless be entitled. The status is in fact not always granted automatically; most often, you have to submit a request to your health insurance fund.
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As a reminder, the latter grants greater coverage of the reimbursement of health care by the mutuality (providers, hospitals, medicines, etc.) and allows you to benefit from certain social advantages (particularly in terms of mobility). Additional protection which therefore makes it possible to fight once morest the renunciation of care, particularly among vulnerable populations, a system that is even more necessary in these times of economic crisis. “It is a valuable lever when a person finds themselves in a financially fragile situation,” recalls Solidaris. Through this campaign, we are therefore calling for several demands. The first, increase the BIM revenue ceilings by 10%. We must also extend the automation of granting BIM status to more fluidly assign BIM status to people who meet the salary conditions. Simplifying access to BIM and the opening of social rights in general must also be a priority, in particular by practicing the only-once principle which makes it possible to avoid citizens and companies communicating the same data several times in the case of where these data have already been transmitted to another administration”.
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