For many women with of a cancer, the wig is the condition for maintaining a friendly social life and professional. However, the average price of a hair prosthesis is 400 euros, and can go up to 3000 euros! Even today, social security reimburses only 125 euros. However, in 2014, the Cancer Plan 3 promised a “doubling of reimbursements for hair prostheses”.
However, nothing has changed since then. Rose association wanted to know why a measure which was promised, validated and “budgeted” by the Inca (National Cancer Institute) is still not implemented, while the “remainder-to-charge 0” for the dental, hearing and vision, on a much larger scale, could be implemented in a single year?
A file blocked for 2 years
They carried out the investigation and discovered that the file had been blocked for 2 years at the Economic Committee for Health Products. The reason ? A lack of staff time. The vice-president of CEPS, Mr. André Tanti, concedes that the file does not present any particular difficulties, but that he would need a week’s work of a collaborator to bring this file to fruition. “However, this collaborator, I do not have it”.
In order to try to get things done, Rose association has published an online petition addressed to the President of the Republic. The association asks “that the examination of the file cease to be postponed indefinitely because of populations or priority files. And that the month of October next is not yet another fair with promises and good feelings but the moment when this commitment made by the State, for cancer patients, becomes a reality “.
Agnès Buzyn says it will be done
In response, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, said Thursday, June 21 on Cnews that wigs would be better reimbursed for patients with cancer. “Of course, this is a measure that I wrote myself when I wrote the cancer plan for the previous government,” she said, referring to the time when she was president of the Institute. national cancer. The High Authority for Health was called upon to determine the characteristics of a wig so that it is reimbursed.
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