The government provides 1.7 billion euros in health spending in 2025

Austerity cure for health. The government forecasts 1.7 billion euros in health spending in 2025, the Minister of Labor and Health, Catherine Vautrin, announced in the National Assembly in the National Assembly on Wednesday, June 25. This declaration comes In response to the slippage observed in the first months of the year. But also in a degraded budgetary context, a few weeks before the presentation of the main orientations of the next budget. Prime Minister, François Bayrou, wants to find 40 billion savings, mainly on state spending.

“We are perfectly aware of the efforts requested from everyone, but we play the sustainability of the social model”, explained Catherine Vautrin. In particular, she assured that the reform of the pricing of health transport, which causes the anger of taxis, would be applied. The measures presented are based in particular on the “Mobilization of a reserve of 700 million euros in expenses” for the hospital and medico-social and savings on the drug “up to 500 million euros”said the minister. These announcements come as The health insurance deficit, estimated at 16 billion euros for 2025, could “reach 41 billion euros” In 2030 according to the organization.