Complementary Health Insurance in France: Wide-Scale Diffusion but Inequalities of Access Persist
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I n France, complementary health insurance, with the exception of CMU-C1 is privately funded. It covers health care and medical goods expenditures not covered by the Statutory Health Insurance scheme, also referred to as out-of-pocket (OOP) payments. Between 1980 and 2008, OOP payments increased from 217 € to 547 € per person per year, at comparative price levels2 (EcoSanté, Health Expenditure Accounts 2009). Two factors explain this increase. Firstly, between 1980 and 2008, overall health care and medical goods expenditures increased from 1,085 € to 2,234 €
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