Catherine Vautrin: "We want to limit any first sick leave prescribed in general practice to fifteen days"

How will the government find €5.5 billion in the health sector? On July 15, Prime Minister François Bayrou announced significant savings for 2026. While debates on the Social Security financing bill, which will begin to be examined in the fall, promise to be lively, Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Health, Labor, Solidarity, and Families, specifies the measures she intends to include in this highly tense budget text. She announces a national target for health insurance spending set, at this stage, below +2%, which represents a particularly low increase, compared to previous years, in this envelope for hospitals and community medicine.

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