Question 15827 — maternity health insurance

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Ms. Élisabeth Toutut-Picard draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the continued reimbursement of homeopathic medicines. Much cheaper than traditional medicines, they are currently reimbursed by social security at 30% and almost a third of French people use them regularly to prevent certain illnesses. The social security financing law for 2019 provides a clarification, by decree, of the evaluation framework by the High Authority for Health (HAS) of the coverage of homeopathic medicines by health insurance. This decree must specify in particular the procedure and terms of evaluation or re-evaluation of these medicines by the HAS commission, as well as the conditions under which they can be admitted or excluded from coverage. The transparency commission must deliver its opinion in February 2019 on maintaining the reimbursement conditions for homeopathy. Health professionals and patients are concerned about a possible delisting of these drugs, the use of which nevertheless makes it possible to reduce the consumption of traditional drugs and costs much less for social security. Such dereimbursement would constitute an attack on the free choice of patients regarding their method of treatment and would risk redirecting medical prescriptions towards more costly solutions for health insurance. She therefore wishes to know whether the Government intends to maintain reimbursement for homeopathic medicines.

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