A boost for a “breathless” system. With overwhelmed emergencies and a crying lack of personnel, against the backdrop of a triple winter epidemic of Covid-19, influenza and bronchiolitis, Emmanuel Macron announced in early January a reorganization of the hospital and measures to facilitate access to care. The government will also extend the 2023 budget by 600 million euros.
“I will propose an amendment on behalf of the government to increase the hospital budget by 600 million euros in 2023” on the amending Social Security financing bill, announced Monday the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts Gabriel Attal on RTL. “The President of the Republic announced strong measures for the hospital (…) You know that, in particular for night work, there were increases for health personnel (…) The President of the Republic announced that ‘we were going to extend them,’ he added.
An extension planned on the public deficit
He also announced the “exit of fee-for-service” in hospitals from the next Social Security budget. Measures rather well received in the hospital environment. “There are other measures that will support caregivers, in particular who work at night,” said Gabriel Attal on Monday.
The kick-off of the debates on the amending Social Security financing bill will be given at 4 p.m., in a hemicycle which promises to be packed for this text which houses the flagship reform of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term: the extension from 62 to 64 of the legal retirement age. “It’s a financial text on the Social Security budget, so there are other subjects that will be discussed,” said Gabriel Attal to explain the amendment to the hospital budget.
Asked about the financing of this measure, he specified that the public deficit target for the year 2023 remained at 5% of GDP and that the government had kept the “possibility, in particular on the hospital budget of ‘increase its commitment’ after the president’s announcements. “We had taken this into account in the forecasts we made,” explained the minister.