In a joint press release co-signed by the Minister of Health Marisol Touraine and the Secretary of State in charge of the Fight against Exclusion Ségolène Neuville, the two representatives of the State announced that the number of beneficiaries of health cover complementary universal insurance (CMU-C) should double in 2014 compared to 2013.
Since 1999, the CMU has enabled all French people and residents of France for at least 3 months to benefit from free medical and hospital treatment. The CMU-C (universal-complementary health coverage) is a free complementary health insurance that takes care of what is not covered by the compulsory health insurance schemes. As part of the coordinated care pathway, it allows you to benefit from 100% coverage of health expenses.
From 2013, the increase in the ceilings for access to this aid, which allows people with low incomes to receive free treatment, had enabled 102,000 additional people to benefit from CMU-C and 64,000 to benefit from ACS. (intended for people with modest incomes but too high to be eligible for CMU-C). Thus, at the end of December 2013, more than 4.8 million people benefited from complementary universal health coverage.
According to the press release by Marisol Touraine and Ségolène Neuville, 2014, 204,000 additional beneficiaries should be added for CMU-C and 180,000 for ACS.
To benefit from the CMU-C, a single person must not have an income of more than 8,593 euros per year (12,889 euros for the two people in the household). For the ACS, this same ceiling is 11,600 euros for a single person and 17,401 euros for two people.
In addition, two orders published today in Official newspaper announce an improvement in the coverage of optical costs as well as that of hearing aids. “An important step forward because optical expenses, for example, generated in nearly 40% of cases a remainder to be paid, which amounted on average to 165 euros” underline the two representatives of the State.
