On the strength of a spectacular recovery of the accounts of social Security, the best since 2002, the minister of social Affairs Marisol Touraine promises to end the “trou de la Secu” in 2017, despite a projected deficit of more than 4 billion euros.
The government is indeed a deficit of the general scheme (sickness, pension, family, accident at work) reduced to 400 million euros compared to 3.4 billion in 2016. But, at the same time, will a deficit of 3.8 billion euros for the old age solidarity Fund (FSV), another component of the social Security, which pays the contributions to pensions of the unemployed and the minimum old-age pension.
“In times of crisis the expenditure of the solidarity pension are higher,” said the minister in an interview to les Echos.
To Marisol Touraine, “the left does the job” : “in 2017, there will be more +hole security+”, she said Thursday night on his blog, on the eve of the presentation of his bill of social security funding for 2017, the last of the quinquennium.
“The history of the quinquennium, it is the end of social deficits,” insisted the minister in his interview to les Echos.
The recovery is notable for 2016, according to the figures of the accounts committee revealed on Thursday: the accumulated deficit of the general scheme and the FSV is expected to increase from 10.8 billion last year to 7.1 billion euros, its lowest level since 2002 (-4,8 billion euros).
But it is embellished by the inclusion of “questionable” an exceptional gain of € 700 million, a statement Tuesday, the Court of auditors.
And the Court of Auditors had also pointed to the situation of the old age solidarity Fund, to integrate, according to her, in the branch for old-age the general scheme (1.6 billion surplus expected in 2017) to better reflect the situation of pensions in France.
New economies, and new taxes
In addition, even reduced by half, the deficit of the sickness Insurance will be always to 2.6 billion euro in 2017. Lord black point of the Safely, it will need to carry out 4 billion euros of savings, while honoring the revaluations of revenues provided for in the public hospital service (to the tune of 700 million euros) and for physicians ($ 400 million).
An objective that is complicated to achieve, according to relatives of the folder, and this despite a spending target of health statement of 700 million euros, announced earlier this week by the Economy minister Michel Sapin.
new measures will be announced Friday to stay the course, among which an increase in the price of tobacco to roll, and the creation of”a tax on the turnover of distributors” of tobacco, which “will pay $ 130 million per year” to the “new fund tobacco control”, according to the minister.
A “fund for medical innovation”, with 800 million euros, will also be created to “finance in the long term the innovative treatments”, “200 million to be spent from 2017 to absorb the shock of the arrival of cancer immunotherapies”. The existing mechanisms of regulation of drug prices will also be renewed.
savings management funds or measures to combat fraud should in total enable of generating € 1.5 billion extra for social schemes, she also specified.
Defending its balance sheet in the Echos, Marisol Touraine pin, by the way, the candidates in the primary right, which, according to her, “play on the fears, negating the results” to “justify policies of social regression” (déremboursements health, postponing the age of retirement, etc.).
Just as the “fatalists, to the left, we explain that by making savings, we necessarily touched upon the protection of the French,” she wrote on her blog, citing in particular the assets of the quinquennium, the establishment of career long, which allowed “230.000″ people to retire at 60 years of age, or the revaluation of benefits for poor families.
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