Emmanuel Macron promised to reimburse wheelchairs, electric and manual, in April 2023. The initial envelope dedicated to the measure was estimated at around 300 million euros.
The measure will be covered by health insurance and complementary health insurance, with no additional cost to the user. Currently, the price of a manual chair can reach up to 10,000 euros, that of an electric one up to 50,000 euro. A million people need a wheelchair, the majority of them elderly, and the number is set to increase with aging.. A second round of negotiations will begin in the coming days, with associations, such as Collectif Handicaps or APF France Handicap, “to have a more important place and to make proposals”, the ministry is told. The government refused to specify the amount of the budgetary boost so as not to whet the appetites of industrialists during the negotiations.. The average remaining charge so far was 900 euros. For 60,000 people, this exceeds 5,000euros. This is not normal,” added the minister.