Question 5254 — maternity health insurance

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Ms. Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi draws the attention of the Minister to the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families, responsible for health and access to care, to the need for full coverage of bariatric transport costs by health insurance for obese people or people with disabilities. As a member of the evaluation mission of Law No. 2005-102 of February 11, 2005 for equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of disabled people, the MP was indeed alerted to this breakdown in equal access to care. The absence of full coverage for bariatric ambulance transport by health insurance represents a major financial obstacle for hundreds of thousands of people, who must assume out-of-pocket expenses reaching several hundred euros for a trip to the hospital requiring a suitable vehicle. It is to be feared that this state of affairs is at the origin of situations of non-recourse to care, transforming the financial obstacle into an obstacle to the effectiveness of the right to health, while one in four disabled people aged 15 to 59 lives below the poverty line, compared to one in seven among the population who is not disabled. The prospect of such an expense can have an effect dissuasive in the request for a consultation, an examination or hospitalization, despite increased medical needs. However, the Drees has already pointed out the extent of the phenomenon of non-seeking of care among disabled people: in 2022, for example, they were twice as likely to give up seeing a doctor because the doctor was too far away or they encountered transport difficulties to get there. THE Failure to seek care worsens the state of health and contributes to a vicious circle of exclusion and deterioration in quality of life. It is not acceptable that three times as many disabled people are unable, for financial reasons, to receive loved ones to share a friendly moment. Every vector of isolation and precariousness must be combatted. Faced with this worrying situation, she asks him when the Government intends to publish the model for common law coverage of bariatric transport by health insurance, notably mentioned by the previous Minister of Health and Prevention in February 2023.

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1. 25 March 2025

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