The Social Security's draft budget for 2022 was voted by the Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, on Tuesday, at first reading, which introduced a change in the retirement age that deputies can remove.

The last social security financing bill (PLFSS) of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, weighing more than 500 billion euros, thus modified, was adopted by 185 votes for (majority of LR and centrist groups) and 101 votes against (PS groups, CRCE with a communist and environmentalist majority).

The majority RDPI groups En Marche, Indépendants and RDSE with a radical majority abstained.

Home visits, contraception, psychology

Deputies and senators will now try to agree on a common version of the text in a joint committee.

In case of failure, the National Assembly will have the last word.

This budget anticipates at this stage a deficit of 20.4 billion euros for the general scheme in 2022, taking into account an improvement in growth for 2021. Some five billion remain provisioned to deal with the aftermath of the Covid crisis. 19.

At the end of a week of debate, Secretary of State Adrien Taquet welcomed this weekend that the upper assembly had kept "great advances", such as the minimum remuneration of 22 euros for home services, the reimbursement of contraception for women under 26 or reimbursement of psychological consultations.

The Senate also gave the green light to the extension of the salary increases granted during the Health Segur to some 20,000 additional caregivers, employees of establishments for disabled people funded by the departments.

"I do not neglect the points of divergence," said Minister of Health Olivier Véran after the vote.

On the right, the LR president of the Social Affairs Commission Catherine Deroche described the PLFSS as a “waiting text” which “says nothing about the choices that will be made” for the future.

The centrist Olivier Henno told him of a "shared feeling" within his group.

Extension of retirement

The Senate has largely rejected the multi-year financial trajectory "which fatalistically presents a deficit" plateau "of around fifteen billion euros by 2025", according to the centrist general rapporteur Elisabeth Doineau. The Senate approved an extension of 1.7 billion euros for health insurance in 2021, proposed by the government in the hemicycle, in particular for the hospital. But he did not vote for the increase of 500 million euros for 2022. The senators were still opposed to the device of taking over the hospital debt, considering that the financing of the investment plan for the hospital should be carried by the general state budget.

The extension of the retirement age is the major provision, and the most political, proposed by the senatorial right.

It puts on the table a gradual postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, from the 1966 generation, and a convergence of special schemes before 2032. "The conditions are not met" to relaunch the project. pension reform, estimated the President of the Republic last week.

PS vote "dedicated" to the hospital

The senators also planned to supervise the expansion, contested by doctors, of the activities of orthoptists, who will be able to prescribe glasses and lenses without consultation with an ophthalmologist.

Secretary of State Adrien Taquet specified the target audience for the implementing decree in preparation: 16-42 year olds with poor visual correction.

On the left, Bernard Jomier criticized "a text of the end of the mandate without relief".

He “dedicated” the “against” vote of the socialist group “to the public hospital”.

"In the absence of new resources (...) you roll back the social debt which will saturate your speeches tomorrow to push through authoritarian reforms", accused the ecologist Raymonde Poncet Monge.

Laurence Cohen (CRCE) also crushed "the right-wing majority of the Senate which shares the political orientations (of the government) on the merits and which has even worsened the text".

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