The pension reform should contribute to financing the care of dependent elderly people, pleads in an interview with the “Journal du dimanche” Arnaud Robinet, President of the French Hospital Federation and Mayor of Reims.
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The FHF, which represents 3,000 public nursing homes, will propose a bill ” ideal “ to support dependency, intended to fuel the debates on the subject within the framework of the National Council for Refoundation.
She offers to “review the economic model of public nursing homes”of which 85% “will be in deficit this year”in “indexing revenue to changes in expenditure”explains Arnaud Robinet.
Carry out “a real recruitment campaign like the Ministry of Defense”
The FHF also pleads for the creation of 100,000 additional positions dedicated to old age by 2030. “The government has planned to create 3,000 more jobs in 2023, that is not enough. It’s a vicious circle: as long as we don’t set a goal of massive job creation, we won’t be able to recruit because the workload is overwhelming.”judge Arnaud Robinet.
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For this, he recommends “strengthen training, increase the number of places in schools, develop the validation of acquired experience and learning, continue to raise salaries”and to set up “a real recruitment campaign, as the Ministry of Defense did”.
2 million more 75-84 year olds by 2030
The FHF also calls for the sustainability of the investment aid provided for in the Ségur de la santé, “or 500 million per year”to modernize nursing homes, and review their operation so that they become “the core of home help in a territory”.
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Recalling that the population aged 75-84 “will increase from 4 to 6 million by 2030”Arnaud Robinet also proposes to set up a “hosting shield” to “compensate for the difference between the resident’s income and the cost of the nursing home”.
To finance these measures, “pension reform seems the most logical path”argues Arnaud Robinet. “This reform, if it is implemented, must save the pay-as-you-go system but also finance the care of our seniors. It may also be necessary to discuss with mutual insurance companies and social partners” and possibly consider “an autonomy component in complementary health contracts”according to him.
