2023-08-27 13:01:43
The growth of sick leaves is not “not sustainable” with regard to the Social Security budget, warned this Sunday, the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau who says he favors controls and “collective responsibility” to curb these health costs. Asked regarding LCI, the new minister seems not to favor the hypothesis of an extension of the waiting period to contain the increase in the cost of sick leave which jumped in 2022 by 7.9%. “I do not believe that the solution is in the worst reimbursement”although “it’s one of the tracks that are on the table,” he said.
“More controls”
Among the solutions considered to control this increase, Aurélien Rousseau explained that he wanted above all “more controls, go faster”lamenting that today “for an employer, it is extremely heavy to trigger checks”. He also asked for more “collective responsibility”, from the patient to the employers, including the doctors. However, he recalled that half of the stops are “very long stoppages, generally for quite old people, these are stoppages linked in part to suffering at work, to the need for retraining”so many subjects that refer to the “quality” life at work, a project that the government intends to open with the social partners.
In his report “expenses and products” 2023, Health Insurance had estimated daily allowance expenses excluding Covid at 13.5 billion euros (excluding maternity), i.e. an average increase per year since 2010 of 3.8% that neither population growth nor the increase wages are not enough to fully explain. Aurélien Rousseau also confirmed that the increase in the deductible on medicines was one of the other ways of saving envisaged within the framework of the social security finance bill (PLFSS) 2024. “Where do we find the resources to increase the means of the hospital if we cannot manage the expenditure on the IJ (daily allowances) or on the price of the drugs?”asked Aurélien Rousseau.
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