Health | New strike by liberal doctors on February 14: “€26.50 per consultation is a provocation!”

• Thursday 02/02/2023 at 19h55
  – Updated at 19h55

• Health

Negotiations with Health Insurance on consultation fees are bogged down. The obligation of the guards imposed by the Rist law electrifies the whole profession

By Sophie MANELLI and Alexandra DUCAMP

Finding a doctor on call, at night, on weekends is now a feat. Or just luck. The permanence of care falling under liberal practitioners “is badly or more assured, everything happens at the hospital”, underlined Emmanuel Macron during his wishes to the world of health, on January 6. The Head of State therefore wants to “re-responsibilize and encourage permanent care in the city”. Remarks little appreciated by the unions of liberal practitioners, even if these guards would be “better paid”. However, the government intends to move forward on the issue. On January 19, an amendment to the bill brought by the deputy Stéphanie Rist was voted in the Assembly, which provides for a “collective obligation” of care in the evening, on weekends and