Next year's budget plan From today to cabinet negotiations Final adjustments such as revision of medical fees

Next year's budget plan From today to ministerial negotiations Final adjustments such as medical fee revision December 17 5:52

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To determine the budget for the next fiscal year, the government will hold a ministerial negotiation between the deputy prime minister and the finance minister and each minister on the 17th and 18th, and finalize the revision of “medical fees” paid to medical institutions. To make specific adjustments.

Ministerial negotiations are a direct negotiation between Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister and the minister in charge of individual budget items that have not been adjusted before.

Among them, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare will discuss “medical fees” paid to medical institutions in order to curb social security costs that continue to swell due to aging.

The portion of “medical fee” that corresponds to the labor costs and technical fees of doctors will be raised by 0.55%, including the cost of promoting work style reforms, while the “medicine price” portion corresponding to the price of drugs will be lowered, and the overall revision will be negative. Adjust the direction.

In addition, we will discuss with the Minister of Defense Kono in order to develop a successor to the Air Self-Defense Force F2 fighter with Japan's initiative in view of cooperation with foreign countries, in order to include more than 10 billion yen in development costs for the main part.

We plan to discuss with the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology about work style reforms in education such as supporting the use of external human resources to reduce the burden on teachers.

The government is proceeding with adjustments to the budget for the next fiscal year in a direction that exceeds the initial budget for this fiscal year by the total amount of the general account, reaching the highest level in the last 102 trillion yen. Based on the results of ministerial negotiations, The Cabinet will decide.