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Social security in France
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| Sécurité sociale | |
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| Formed | October 19, 1945 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of France |
| Motto | De chacun selon ses moyens, à chacun selon ses besoins (English: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs) |
| Employees | 150,000 |
| Annual budget | 470€ billion EUR (2018) |
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| Parent department | Minister of Health |
| Website | www |
Social security (French: sécurité sociale) is divided by the French government into five branches: illness; old age/retirement; family; work accident; and occupational disease. From an institutional point of view, French social security is made up of diverse organismes. The system is divided into three main Regimes: the General Regime, the Farm Regime, and the Self-employed Regime. In addition there are numerous special regimes dating from prior to the creation of the state system in the mid-to-late 1940s.
The main concept is that a unique and central institution will pay for all medical costs and pensions so as to provide an equal level of coverage to the whole population. All incomes are taxed to fund this system. The main advantage is that its negotiating power lowers very significantly the price of medicine and the system covers systematically all expenses without limit (100% coverage for any long term or critical problem such as diabetes or cancer). The main drawback being the significant cost (albeit lower than that in the US).
In 2018, Social security paid out €470 billion in social benefits, equivalent to 20% of France's GDP of €2,353 billion.[1] Its main expenditure is on benefits for the sickness branch of the general scheme (€198.3 billion) and benefits for the old-age branch of the general scheme (€126.3 billion). Social security benefit fraud is relatively low (€2.3 billion), lower than social security contribution fraud by companies (€6.8 to €8.4 billion), and much lower than tax fraud (€80 to €100 billion).[2]
- ^ "Les comptes de la Nation en 2018 - Insee Première - 1754". www.insee.fr. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
- ^ Direction de la Sécurité sociale (September 2019). Les chiffres clés de la Sécurité sociale 2018 (PDF) (in French)..
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