Universal health protection: A progress report on the 2016 reform
Le Bayon, Denis
Universal health protection: A progress report on the 2016 reform - 2020.
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The reform of universal health protection carried out by the Social Security Financing Bill for 2016—one of the major reforms of our social protection since the CMU Act of 1999—has made it possible to reaffirm the universality of health protection rights, confirm the uniformity of these rights, and take a step forward on the path to managing them as one entity. Even though it went relatively unnoticed by our fellow citizens, this has resulted in greatly limiting the risks of breaks in entitlement, because it has reduced the scope of transfers of insured persons from one scheme to another. It has also modernized the original conception of our social protection system by empowering adult beneficiaries, who are now insured independently rather than in their capacity as “workers.” Previously, they (as “workers”) were still the people who unlocked the entitlement for themselves and their relatives, in accordance with an outdated conception of the head of family, a conception that did not take into account the widespread economic emancipation of women in the letter of the Social Security Code.In addition to these advances, this reform includes other reforms that have since been implemented in the field of health insurance, particularly in terms of institutional simplification (putting an end to the delegation of management to student mutual insurance companies, transferring the activities of civil servants’ mutual insurance companies to the general system, and shutting down the social security system for the self-employed (RSI) and integrating the self-employed into the general system) and thus appears to be a reform that is still partly in the making.
Universal health protection: A progress report on the 2016 reform - 2020.
100
The reform of universal health protection carried out by the Social Security Financing Bill for 2016—one of the major reforms of our social protection since the CMU Act of 1999—has made it possible to reaffirm the universality of health protection rights, confirm the uniformity of these rights, and take a step forward on the path to managing them as one entity. Even though it went relatively unnoticed by our fellow citizens, this has resulted in greatly limiting the risks of breaks in entitlement, because it has reduced the scope of transfers of insured persons from one scheme to another. It has also modernized the original conception of our social protection system by empowering adult beneficiaries, who are now insured independently rather than in their capacity as “workers.” Previously, they (as “workers”) were still the people who unlocked the entitlement for themselves and their relatives, in accordance with an outdated conception of the head of family, a conception that did not take into account the widespread economic emancipation of women in the letter of the Social Security Code.In addition to these advances, this reform includes other reforms that have since been implemented in the field of health insurance, particularly in terms of institutional simplification (putting an end to the delegation of management to student mutual insurance companies, transferring the activities of civil servants’ mutual insurance companies to the general system, and shutting down the social security system for the self-employed (RSI) and integrating the self-employed into the general system) and thus appears to be a reform that is still partly in the making.
Réseaux sociaux