For more than 20 years, social security has been synonymous with abysmal deficit. It is therefore a generation that grew up with the idea that we lived on credit to maintain our social achievements. But that era is over. In any case, this is what the Minister of Social Affairs and Health promises us. “In 2017, the security hole will have disappeared”, welcomes Marisol Touraine in an interview with Echoes.
17.4 billion deficit in 2011, 400 million next year out of a 500 billion budget, the colossal debt left by the predecessors comes down, with this government, to “a stroke of the pen”, explains the minister in substance in the daily. To the medical franchises of the right, she notes, the five-year term of François Hollande opposed structural reforms and the improvement of social rights.
“We will have saved the Secu”, chants Marisol Touraine, sketching in passing the first figures of the future presidential campaign of the candidate Hollande.
So everything else is just detail. Forecasts established on strong economic growth, raises the journalist. “I was told the same thing last year at the same time, and we are doing better than expected, responds tit for tat, the Minister of Health.
Same thing for the warning of the Court of Auditors on the slippage of Health Insurance in 2017. “Structural reforms, I don’t just talk about them, I do them”!
The fact remains that the next government will be accountable in 2017 for the 4 billion in savings on health insurance announced in 2016 and that it will have to pay the bill of one billion in revaluation of doctors’ incomes.
But we cannot ignore such a victory with these few billions that exceed!
