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2024-02-24T10:13:03.204Z

Highlights: The price of mutual insurance has increased by 8.1% in 2024. Many French people are wondering about the usefulness of subscribing. What are the main guarantees and those which are more ancillary? How to break a contract? Are there any pitfalls to avoid? Le Figaro draws up a general picture and gives you some advice. This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 83% left to discover. Flash sale -70% on digital subscription I ENJOY IT Already subscribed? Log in.


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Between the turkey and the end-of-year log, bad news had to be digested: the mutual rate would increase by 8.1% in 2024. A level never reached, according to figures from the French Mutualité.

And yet another hard blow for the purchasing power of the French, which has been badly battered in recent months, despite the very gradual decline in inflation.

If this average is likely to fluctuate depending on the type of contract chosen by the policyholders (individual, compulsory collective, optional collective), the government and the supplementaries have passed the buck on this issue.

The former Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau, who admitted to having

“fairly little direct power over the increase in prices”,

had even asked, when he was still in charge in December, contributors to

“compare and, it was necessary to change”

mutual insurance.

Easier said than done, this injunction nevertheless had the merit of allowing the 95% of French people who have signed a contract with an organization to take stock of the latter.

What are the main guarantees and those which are more ancillary?

How to break a contract?

Are there any pitfalls to avoid?

Le Figaro

draws up a general picture and gives you some advice.

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