Health, Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Public hospitals: €3bn more for hospitals and 10,000 care staff posts
Direction of change: increase, compared with current law.
The lever. Resources for public hospitals: budget, beds, staff numbers and pay of health workers, activity-based funding model. Direction rule: ↑ more resources for public hospitals.
« Mais il est temps de redonner un souffle aux hôpitaux avec 3 milliards d'euros et 10 000 créations de postes personnels soignants, ce qui fera un coût de 3 milliards d'euros. »1Translation by the editorsBut it is time to give hospitals a new lease of life with 3 billion euros and 10,000 new care staff posts, which will cost 3 billion euros.
Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo), 14 October 2026. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, tasked by the candidate with carrying the programme: they commit the candidate.
Link to the candidacy: Alongside Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he presents the budget the candidate would have passed from 2027 through an amending finance act; he is responsible for his economic programme.
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| Parameter | Current law | Proposed | Effective date or horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increase in health establishments' resources beyond the trajectory | 0% | 2.3% (assumption by the editors, see the costing) | full year 2032, €bn/year |
Costing
Announced by the candidate
−€3bn
per year, new spending. Éric Coquerel, press conference of 14 October 2026 (around 0:41:59): « avec 3 milliards d'euros et 10 000 créations de postes personnels soignants, ce qui fera un coût de 3 milliards d'euros » [“with 3 billion euros and 10,000 new care staff posts, which will make a cost of 3 billion euros”]
Published costings
none
No external costing of this position recorded to date.
Our calculation
−€3bn
per year for the public accounts, new spending, range −€3.2bn to −€2.5bn.
The calculation
- Increase in health establishments' resources beyond the trajectory: (2.3 − 0) ÷ 1 = 2.3 times “+1% in resources for the health establishments sub-target (beyond the trajectory)”, each a cost of €1.3bn (1.1 to 1.4).
Assumption by the editors. Partial costing. Reading adopted: the €3bn goes to the resources of public health establishments, i.e. 2.3% of the « établissements de santé » [“health establishments”] sub-target by 2032 (about €1.3bn per point). The sentence can be read in two ways: €3bn in total, posts included, or €3bn plus the cost of the 10,000 posts; the amounts announced item by item only add up to the spending total (€81.7bn) if the posts cost about €3bn more. This second amount is not costed.
Coefficient calculated by the editors from PLFSS 2026, annexe 5 (ONDAM): the position is marked as an assumption by the editors.
Figure announced by the candidate: no gap calculated: the announcement covers a different scope or a different year.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. ONDAM 2026: the « établissements de santé » (health establishments) sub-target funds public and private establishments, at €111.8bn (PLFSS 2026 base). The PLFSS planned +2.4%; in November 2025 the Government announced an €850m increase bringing growth to +3.2% (explanatory statement of amendment no. 2695, which fell at first reading; the final text of the LFSS 2026, which sets the sub-target as voted, has not been reviewed).
Horizon. full year 2032, €bn/year
Limits. 1% of €111.8bn = €1.12bn today. With about 3% growth per year until 2032 (assumption), the base approaches €137bn, hence €1.3bn to €1.4bn. Commitments of “+X care staff posts” require a cost per FTE in the hospital civil service, not sourced here. The sub-objective includes the for-profit private sector: a position that targets public hospitals specifies this.
- PLFSS 2026, annexe 5 (ONDAM), 2025-10-14: « le financement des établissements de santé publics et privés (111,8 Md€) ; I.7 Le financement des établissements de santé prévu en hausse de 2,4 % en 2026 »
- Assemblée nationale, amendement n° 2695 du Gouvernement au PLFSS 2026 (n° 1907), article 49, exposé sommaire (amendement tombé), 2025-11-12: « Cet amendement acte le rehaussement de l’Ondam de 1 milliard d’euros, conformément à l’engagement du Gouvernement en soutien au système de santé. Sur ce montant, 850 millions d’euros sont fléchés vers le financement des établissements de santé […] La progression du sous-objectif « établissements de santé » atteindra ainsi 3,2% en 2026, contre 2,4% dans le projet initial. »
- Infirmiers.com, amendement du gouvernement à la LFSS 2026, 2025-11: « 850 millions d'euros fléchés vers les établissements de santé ... l'enveloppe dédiée aux établissements de santé affichera ainsi une progression de 3,2% »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo), 14 October 2026. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme. Words of Éric Coquerel, MP, in charge of LFI's economic programme, tasked by the candidate with carrying the programme: they commit the candidate. Read the source (Conférence de presse « Comment nous allons remettre de l’ordre dans les comptes publics » (vidéo)).
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