Liberal practitioners are not taking off and intend to make it known once again. While some will go under the windows of the Luxembourg Palace to parade, others will simply not open their cabinet this Tuesday, February 14.
The “Rist” law still at the heart of the debates
A law by Renaissance MP Stéphanie Rist particularly boosts general practitioners. While it was adopted at first reading on Thursday January 19 and will be examined in the Senate on Tuesday afternoon, it aims to give direct access to certain nurses, speech therapists or even physiotherapists who practice in a health office. No prior appointment with the GP. A measure supposed to simplify access to care when 6 million French people have no attending physician.
But doctors do not see this at all in the same light. “Voting the PPL Rist is giving the illusion that health can do without doctors”protested in a press release dated February 10, the unions of hospital practitioners from Action Praticiens Hôpital and the AMUF.
For its part, the National Council of the Order of Physicians joins the movement “because of the worrying threats that the provisions of the Rist law pose to access to care, its dignity and its quality of exercise”.
Despite everything, Minister Braun defends a supposed reform “promote coordinated exercise” between caregivers and so “free up medical time”.
Conflict with health insurance
Another subject of tension, the proposal of the Health Insurance to increase the basic price of consultations. Indeed, this price should increase from 25 to 26.60 euros. Doctors claimed double. This “small” increase was, for many, experienced as “a provocation”.
On this point again, the Minister of Health intends to yield nothing: “My goal is to meet the health needs of the population”he said, claiming to hear “anger” practitioners, “but also that of the French who cannot find a doctor”.
On the side of Health Insurance, its director Thomas Fatôme, hinted in an interview with Doctor’s Daily that the negotiations – which should be completed in two weeks – are still open. However, there will be trade-offs. “We will go further next week”, he said. But “un engagement territorial” will be requested, so that practitioners take on more patients and that call duty is provided in the evenings and on weekends.
Also claiming “the essential revaluation of the home visit”SOS Médecins also joins the mobilization of this Tuesday, February 14, calling on its members to stop work for 24 hours from tomorrow morning.