Six hundred thousand people would be affected. All chronic patients without a doctor will be “contacted” by Health Insurance “by June” to be offered “concrete solutions”, assured this Monday the Minister of Health, François Braun. The executive has been insisting for several months on people with long-term illnesses (ALD).
Emmanuel Macron himself assured in early January that these chronic patients would be offered “before the end of the year” a practitioner or “a treating team”.
Insured persons “deprived of regular monitoring”
These policyholders “are deprived of regular monitoring”, which “is no longer acceptable”, declared François Braun during his “wishes to the living forces of health”. To remedy this, the Minister announced that all ALD patients will therefore be contacted. This task will be entrusted “in the coming weeks” to a “steering body” placed “under the aegis of Health Insurance”, he added.
At the same time, François Braun called for “better recognition and enhancement of the role and commitment of general practitioners” in the context of the ongoing negotiations between the doctors’ unions and the Health Insurance. Discussions which have recently become tense, as the deadline for concluding an agreement approaches, pushing the minister to summon “the spirit of dialogue and responsibility” to achieve “by the end of February”.
