Dark birthday. While the social protection system is celebrating its 70th birthday, the French are showing a skeptical face. They express concern about the future of securityin an Odoxa poll for Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France and France Info, published on Tuesday.
Only 19% of respondents say they are confident about its fate for the decades to come at a time when the hole in social security is expected to reach 12.8 billion euros in 2015. The deficit widened by 400 million euros compared to 2014, weighed down by poor figures from the Old Age Solidarity Fund and the disease branch.
This feverishness is felt by policyholders, 69% of whom consider that healthcare coverage has rather deteriorated over the past ten years. For 24% it has remained stable and for only 7% it has rather improved.
But the foundations of solidarity and assistance of social protection, as imagined in 1945 after the war, are still relevant for the government, which has set itself the objective of bringing the Social Security deficit below the bar of 10 billion euros in 2016.
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