A campaign to demand the right to be forgotten for people cured of cancer has just been launched. Senators are discussing this provision this week.
“To suffer, cancer is enough!” It is with this very strong slogan that Rose Magazine, the first women’s magazine for cancer patients, is launching a mobilization on the Web to demand the right to be forgotten.
Former and current patients share their testimonies in the form of video, on a multimedia platform set up by the magazine. Young women tell about their journey, the fight against disease, their hopes for the future, and the fear that they will not be able to realize all their projects without the right to be forgotten. With simple and touching words, they give a face to the disease, and stress the need to change their rights.
Obstacles to the right to be forgotten
A campaign that comes as the Senate discusses this week amendments to the health law for a right to rapid banking oblivion.
This provision was announced by François Hollande in 2014, as part of the third plan cancer. It was to benefit everyone who had recovered from the disease, but ultimately did not go as far as expected.
For the moment, this right is only granted to children under the age of 15. Adults have to wait fifteen years before they can stop reporting their medical history to banks and insurance companies.
Get Senators’ Attention
However, this practice often imposes on former patients premiums and reimbursement rates to banks almost twice as high as the average. Inequalities in access to loans and complicated financial situations result.
At the beginning of September, an open letter in the newspaper Release, signed by health professionals, underlined the absurdity of this situation. She recalled that great medical progress had been made to cure cancer, allowing high survival rates in former patients, who should therefore not be penalized.
For that, Rose Magazine hopes that its 2.0 campaign will draw the attention of senators to these problems, and to the need for action.
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