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During a press briefing, the director of the Social Security Department announced that the number of beneficiaries of the complementary health and solidarity (CSS) is slightly up at the start of 2021. This trend could occur. ” accelerate with the health crisis.
The switch from CMU-C (complementary universal health coverage) and ACS (assistance for complementary health) to CSS (complementary health solidarity) took place on November 1, 2020. Almost a year and a half later , the director of the Directorate of Social Security Franck Von Lennep, took stock in a speech to an audience of journalists on Thursday.
Social security has thus identified 1.4 million beneficiaries of CSS with participation of the insured, an increase of 6% compared to the end of 2019. At the same time, with regard to CSS without participation, there are 5.9 million beneficiaries, an increase of 2.5% over the same period. Nearly half of the beneficiaries in 2021 are also first-time applicants.
What will be the Covid effect?
In detail, 6 out of 10 insured choose a complementary organization (two-thirds of which are mutual health insurance) and the others opt for a primary health insurance fund (Cpam). However, Franck Van Lennep specifies that it is difficult to draw great lessons from this assessment, the health crisis having passed by there.
However, in a press release published on Monday, the Mutualité Française recalls that complementary health insurance funds CSS via “A tax of 13.27 € for 100 € of contributions”. The organization therefore launched the“Alert on the financing of this device” and therefore ask “To get out of funding resting exclusively on his shoulders”.
