2024-01-31 09:32:20
Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity Catherine Vautrin at the Elysée in Paris on August 30, 2023. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
Arms in the air, to the words ofAlexandria Alexandra, an old hit by Claude François, Catherine Vautrin launched into a wild karaoke, on Saturday January 20, in a nursing home in Aisne. During her first field visit, the new Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity demonstrated her eagerness to take care of “our elders”. But, barely appointed, the number three in the government has dashed the hopes of parliamentarians to see a future financial programming law for the elderly.
Catherine Vautrin was on the bench of ministers, Tuesday January 30, for the examination in the Senate of the proposed law (PPL) relating to “aging well”, voted on at first reading in the National Assembly, on November 23, 2023. On a Macronist initiative, the PPL provides – by virtue of an opposition amendment, voted in November by all political groups in the Assembly – that“a multi-year programming law” will define, “before December 31, 2024 (…), the public funding objectives necessary to ensure the healthy aging of elderly people at home and in establishments, and the recruitment of professionals”.
Ms. Vautrin, however, closed the door to this perspective on Tuesday, on the grounds that “Article 34 of our Constitution does not retain the notion of a programming law for the medico-social sector”. However, she clarified that the Council of State, referred to by the government, would definitively decide on the question in an opinion on February 8. If a so-called “programming” law proves to be unconstitutional, Ms. Vautrin, however, affirmed, in the Senate Social Affairs Committee, on January 24: “I undertake before you to make a law [simple] for old age, and that it be done and voted on by the end of this year. »
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In session on Tuesday evening, the minister did not display this ambition. In the afternoon, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, ignored a law concerning old age, in his general policy speech. “We will continue to build a society where everyone can age with dignity and as they wish, by making it easier for those who wish to stay at home and by improving daily life in nursing homes”, did he declare. “Two sentences [seulement] to evoke » the subject, deplored stakeholders in the sector, such as the Association of Departments of France.
Impossible promise?
On November 22, Elisabeth Borne made this commitment: “We will carry out this programming law, she had said. I hope that a text can be presented by the summer for examination and adoption in the second half of 2024.” Aurore Bergé, then Minister of Solidarity, also said this: “A law on programming for old age is necessary. I’m in (…) to bring it to fruition. »
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