Health insurance

Franchises médicales : l'Assurance maladie s'oppose au doublement Mais le gouvernement maintient

On Thursday, September 5, 2025, the French Health Insurance Council (Conseil de l'Assurance Maladie) ruled against doubling medical deductibles. Despite this unfavorable opinion, the Bayrou government maintains its determination to publish its decrees to curb healthcare spending, just a few days before the vote of confidence on September 8.

Covid and isolation: new rules to come soon for positive cases and contact cases

To date, people who have been in touch with someone infected with the Omicron variant must self-isolate for seven days, or even 17 days if they live in the same place. Following the latest health defense council, Jean Castex announced the self-isolation period for Covid-19 positive cases and contact cases will change soon. These new isolation rules are to be announced by the end of the week by the French government.

Covid: what are long Covid symptoms?

Thousands of people suffer from long Covid after being infected with the virus. Fatigue, shortness of breath, pain: what does this new disease feature?

Covid: who and when can one get a vaccine?

Despite the details of the mass Covid vaccine campaign and the different steps explained by Jean Castex and Olivier Véran a few weeks ago, you still do not know which group you belong to? What step you are part of? How to know if you can get a vaccine? Here are answers.

Coronavirus, pas de jours de carence arrêt maladie

Pas de jours de carence en cas d'arrêt maladie durant toute la durée de l'état d'urgence sanitaire, voilà la nouvelle annoncée ce samedi 21 mars par Edouard Philippe.

Coronavirus: who are the “health brigades”?

To lead confinement properly, the French government creates “health brigades” entrusted with finding all people who have been in touch with a coronavirus-infected person. But who are those detectives and how do they work on a daily basis?