While the Social Security would reimburse only 50% of current care, 140 personalities on the left and on the right are calling for a public debate on health.
“If we continue in this direction, social protection will soon only take care of the most disadvantaged patients and the most seriously ill” denounces the 140 personalities from the world of health and leftist politics as well as right signatories of this petition launched by Professor André Grimaldi. Through this call revealed this Sunday morning on one of the Parisian, the authors of this cry of alarm call on users and health professionals to mobilize to stop the current drift which would spell the end of our universal and united social security.
The signatories of this petition particularly point the finger at the drift of current care. “We are in the process of moving, without democratic debate, from a logic of solidarity support for all to a logic of assistance for the poorest and insurance for the richest” they launch in their appeal. According to them, for ten years, instead of stepping up the fight against unjustified expenditure and giving new impetus to the public health insurance service, the choice was made to gradually transfer the assumption of responsibility for routine care (medical care). excluding hospitalization and long-term ALD illnesses) to supplementary insurance. Mutuals, provident institutions and private for-profit insurers that they consider less equal (variable rates and higher according to the insured risk), less solidarity, and more expensive since their management costs often exceed 15% of the benefits paid against less than 5% for Social Security.
On the other hand, in the eyes of the petitioners, the national inter-professional agreement of 2013 generalizing the complementary to all employees would also promote this process of “rampant privatization” of health insurance. “At first glance, it looks like a social breakthrough. In reality, the French are gradually getting used to compulsory health insurance. It is a first step towards a dissolution of compulsory Social Security ”confides Professor André Grimaldi in the columns of the Parisian.
All the signatories of this text therefore request that a public debate be launched, followed by a vote in the National Assembly. “We ask that a broad citizen debate opens, followed by a solemn vote by the National Representation, on the choice between the financing of health expenditure by Social Security or by a so-called complementary private insurer” concludes the petition of the 140 .
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