PLFSS 2025-What It Means for Healthcare?
The PLFSS 2025 (Social Security Financing Bill) has been approved using Article 49.3, allowing the French government to bypass parliamentary votes.
🎯 Key Objectives
✅ Ensure healthcare funding.
✅ Control medicine and medical device costs.
✅ Reduce Social Security debt.
⚖ What Does This Mean?
✔ Automatic approval without a parliamentary vote.
✔ Avoids legislative deadlocks that could delay reforms.
✔ Limits democratic debate by restricting parliamentary amendments.
The French government invoked Article 49.3, significantly reducing parliament’s ability to influence the bill by preventing a large number of amendments from being considered in public sessions.
📊 Data on Inadmissible Amendments
🔹 Irrecevability 40: Financial matters.
🔹 Irrecevability 41: Provisions outside the scope of the law.
🔹 Irrecevability 98: "Legislative riders" (amendments unrelated to the law).
📌 Key Policies Approved in the PLFSS 2025
📍 Stricter conditions for digital medical device reimbursements.
📍 Drug price regulation and medical device cost controls.
📍 Cost-saving measures in medical biology and imaging.
📍 Prevention of medicine shortages.
📢 What’s next? We will continue to track the impact of PLFSS 2025 on digital health and medical innovation in France. Stay tuned for updates!