Arms in the air, to the words ofAlexandria Alexandra, an old hit by Claude François, Catherine Vautrin launched a wild karaoke on Saturday January 20th in a nursing home in Aisne. During her first visit to the site, the new Minister for Labor, Health and Solidarity showed that she is ready to take care of it “our elders”. But, hardly mentioned, number three in the government dampened parliamentarians’ hopes for a future financial program law for older people.
Catherine Vautrin sat on the ministerial bench on Tuesday January 30 to attend the Senate examination Proposed law (PPL) on the topic of “Aging well”which was voted on in the first reading in the National Assembly on November 23, 2023. At Macron’s initiative, the PPL – based on an opposition amendment voted on by all parliamentary groups in the Assembly in November – stipulates that ““a multi-year program law” will define, “before December 31, 2024 (…), the public funding targets needed to ensure healthy aging of older people at home and in institutions and the recruitment of skilled workers.”.
MMe However, Vautrin closed the door on this prospect on Tuesday, citing reasons “Article 34 of our constitution does not retain the idea of a program law for the medical and social sector.” However, she stated that the government-appointed State Council would make a final decision on the issue in a statement on February 8th. If a so-called “programming” law turns out to be unconstitutional, MMe However, Vautrin reiterated on January 24 in the Senate Social Affairs Committee: “I undertake to make a law before you [simple] for age, and that it should be finalized and voted on by the end of this year. »
At the meeting on Tuesday evening, the minister did not show this ambition. In the afternoon the Prime Minister Gabriel Attalhad ignored a law on old age in his general political speech. “We will continue to build a society in which everyone can age with dignity and as they wish, by making it easier for those who want to stay at home and by improving daily life in nursing homes.”, he explained. “Two sentences [seulement] conjure up” The issue deplored stakeholders in the sector, such as the Association of Departments of France.
Impossible promise?
On November 22nd, Elisabeth Borne made this commitment: “We will implement this programming law, she had said. I hope that a text can be presented by the summer for consideration and adoption in the second half of 2024.” Aurore Bergé, the Minister of Solidarity at the time, also said the following: “A law on pension provision is necessary. Count me in (…) to make it happen. »
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