Here are the departments where health spending is the highest
The DREES has established a map of average health expenditure per inhabitant in France and has highlighted disparities between departments. ...
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Health spending: despite the pandemic, a historic slowdown
Yet in the midst of a pandemic, health spending in 2020 reached 209.2 billion euros, an increase of 0.4% which ...
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PCR tests: Health Insurance has spent 917 million euros on screening
Every week, the Health Insurance spends 88 million euros to carry out more than a million PCR tests. The deficit ...
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Sport: moderate physical activity would reduce hospitalizations
Physical activity, even if only moderate, would allow people aged 40 to 79 to spend less time in the hospital, ...
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Cancer is getting more and more expensive
David Khayat, at the origin of the cancer plan launched in 2003, commissioned a study on the economic cost of ...
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Back pain: the secret is to move, ensures Health Insurance
While many people think that back pain can be cured by immobility, on the contrary, it is necessary to continue ...
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Agnès Buzyn and excessive health spending: Prof. André Grimaldi responds
Unlike the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, who declared on France Info that France was spending too much for her ...
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Cancer: the French underestimate the cost of treatment
The French find it difficult to assess the real cost of cancer care. Questioned by Institut Curie, they underestimate the ...
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Health spending has tripled in 65 years
The growth in health spending was strongest between 1950 and 1950, a report reveals.Since the 1950s, the share of health ...
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Health insurance: high management costs
Experts believe that the duality of the health system between health insurance and complementary health insurance hinders expenditure control.The Economic ...
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Health insurance revenue to find 2 billion euros
The Health Insurance Fund proposes to promote generic drugs, to promote outpatient surgery and to limit medical transport. In 2018, ...
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Medicines: the French health system limits soaring prices
Canadians spend on average more than the French or the Germans on health care. The lack of universal coverage partly ...
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Mental illnesses: 19 billion euros spent in 2015
Psychiatric illnesses and consumption of psychotropic drugs represent the 2nd and 3rd expenditure items for Health Insurance. More than 7 ...
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Health: nearly 600,000 more chronically ill in 2020
Between 2012 and 2015, health expenditure increased regardless of the pathologies, due to the increase in the number of patients. ...
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Health expenditure: targets were met in 2016
Health spending was brought under control in 2016. With an increase of 1.8%, it meets the set target. But spending ...
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Back pain: one billion euros per year in France
9 out of 10 French people have had back pain at least once in their life. Pain that is costly ...
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Tobacco swallows up 6% of global health spending
Smoking represents a colossal economic burden, especially in developing countries, according to a study carried out in 152 countries. To ...
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Unit drugs: the disputed Macron proposal
During a meeting organized in Nevers, Emmanuel Macron pledged to generalize the unit sale of drugs. This measure still meets ...
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United States: not getting vaccinated costs $ 9 billion a year
The United States spent $ 9 billion in 2015 to fight 10 preventable diseases. The vaccination of the population would ...
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Medicines: Marisol Touraine wants to regulate access to innovation
Access to therapeutic innovations is too expensive. The Ministry of Health is proposing to create a fund dedicated to health ...
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Health: the French pay less for treatment
The share of expenditure assumed by households continued to decline in 2015. The remainder payable by complementary has also decreased, ...
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Obesity: no question of taxing junk food
Obesity costs the state more than 20 billion euros. A report proposes to tax products above a caloric threshold. The ...
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Obesity: taxing food according to the number of calories
Health expenditure, loss of productivity… Obesity costs the State 20.4 billion euros. Bercy offers several avenues to limit the additional ...
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Medical transport: the Social Security wants to restore order
The prescriptions of medical transport amounted to 4 billion euros in 2015. An increasing budget and which interests the Health ...
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Medicines: France does not consume more than other countries
According to the OECD, France consumes fewer drugs than its neighbors. However, the arrival of very expensive treatments on the ...
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Drugs: costs explode in the United States
Up to twice as expensive on the other side of the Atlantic. Anticancer drugs and other drugs are seeing their ...
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Health expenditure: 2,900 euros per French person on average
Each French person spends an average of 2,843 euros per year on medical care, for a total amount of 186.7 ...
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Antibiotic consumption is on the rise
A report confirms a further rise in the consumption of antibiotics in France. Far from the objectives of the last ...
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Air pollution: an annual cost of 100 billion in France
According to a senatorial report, France spends nearly 100 billion euros each year to counter damage linked to air pollution. ...
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Social Security deficit improves
The deficit of the general scheme for the year 2015 should reach 9.5 billion euros in 2015, instead of the ...
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