Europe 1 with AFP 7:05 p.m., April 15, 2022
According to the alert committee on the evolution of health insurance expenditure, the objective of health expenditure linked to the Covid-19 epidemic for 2022, set at 4.9 billion euros, "risk of be significantly exceeded".
The committee has already noted certain overruns for the current year.
The health expenditure target linked to the Covid-19 epidemic for 2022, set at 4.9 billion euros, "risks being significantly exceeded", according to the alert committee on the evolution of expenditure health insurance.
While recalling "the high uncertainty linked to the development of the epidemic (of Covid-19)", the committee already notes certain overruns for the current year, in a notice dated Friday and published on the security-social site .Fr
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Expenses related to vaccines and tests
Like, for example, a payment “of 1.2 billion euros not covered by this provision” and mainly dedicated to orders for vaccines and anti-Covid drugs placed at the end of 2021. Or even the expenses related to tests which, at the end of the first quarter, “exceeded the annual provision by 0.5 billion euros” of 1.6 billion, due to the epidemic rebound at the start of the year.
There is, in addition, the surge in work stoppages which, in January and February alone, reached 0.6 billion.
Excluding the health crisis, the committee calls for "close monitoring" of the main expenditure items, "which are increasing faster than the average".
He indicates that he has taken note of "the salary increases in favor of professionals in the socio-educational sector for an additional cost of 350 million euros from 2022" and of "the announcement by the government, on March 14, of a salary increase in the public service by the summer".