Rare are those who, of the health crisis, will emerge a winner. But as revealed by BFM Business, the mutual sector is definitely one of those. According to information from the chain of continuous information, the sector would have saved no fewer than 779 million euros during the period of containment.
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These figures can be explained by the cessation massif of the French to seek care in a time of spread of the coronavirus. According to BFM Business, the dental and optical are down 90 %, consultations with general practitioners by 68% and 79 % for the specialists. This does not, of course, resulted in the stoppage of the contributions paid to the various mutual societies, which have not evolved and have maintained a similar level during the crisis.
A gesture in favor of medicare ?
as Soon as the first measures of déconfinement, the level of reimbursement has quickly regained his pace prior to the crisis, the consultation is very quickly, or even instantly multiplied. But not enough return on the money saved during the confinement. The mutualité française considers his side as a balance of the crisis is still premature and that it is difficult to assess the extent of savings actually realized.
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discussions are also ongoing with the authorities around a potential gesture financier of health insurance, a sign of solidarity, as noted by BFM Business, social Security expects a deficit history of 50 billion euros this year.
