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New Measures Announced To Cut Healthcare Deficit
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The French government has announced a set of new measures aimed at reducing its healthcare budget deficit. Among the measures that will become part of the bill financing social security 2009 - which is to be presented in late 2008 - will be a levy on complementary health insurance fund revenues of at least 3%. The aim is to generate an extra EUR1bn (US$1.55bn) to help narrow the country's bulging healthcare deficit - forecast to be EUR4.1bn (US$6.34bn) for