While the accounts of Social Security were to become surplus again, they will plunge back into the red this year, with an abysmal deficit of more than 50 billion euros, a record.
The health crisis has brought down contributions entering the funds, while expenses soared on the side of Medicare: it is necessary to finance care, overtime for carers, equipment (masks, gowns, respirators, etc. drugs, etc.) To which must now be added the millions of screening tests.
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And the bill for Social Security promises to be steep, since it is "open bar": anyone can do an RT-PCR virological test, without a prescription and reimbursed at 100% by Social Security.
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Tourists, foreign seasonal workers can be tested, people who want to take the plane even take the exam in several laboratories to be sure to have the results on time,
" said François Blanchecotte, president of the National Union of Biologists .
And this, even
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