The Confederation of Dental Trade Unions rejected 99.88% of the Health Insurance proposal on the revaluation of tariffs. A big demonstration is announced in March.
Dentists are angry. They blocked the Paris ring road this Friday morning for fifteen minutes and were thousands this afternoon to demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the CNAM (1). The cause of their discontent, the conventional tariff negotiations which are currently stuck, with a cap on acts, according to them.
Meeting in an Extraordinary General Assembly on January 26, the departmental representatives of the National Confederation of Dental Trade Unions (CNSD), 2nd trade union in the profession, voted 99.88% against the signing of amendment n ° 4. Since the rejection of the FSDL (1), the first union, the CNSD was the last union to be able to validate on its own the proposals governing the tariff relations of the 37,000 liberal surgeons with Social Security and complementary health insurance.
A dialogue of the deaf for 5 years
For the CNSD, this almost unanimous decision is “the result of the policy of contempt for dentists pursued for five years by the Minister of Health. This dogmatic policy, which is unanimously opposed to it, has resulted in the fact that for the first time in conventional history, all the representative unions have rejected en bloc a conventional endorsement, ”she continues.
Catherine Mojaïsky, president of the CNSD, even goes so far as to denounce a sham negotiation: “The text of the rider is the outcome of a negotiation biased by the threat of a pre-written arbitral settlement”, she says in a press release. “By brandishing the threat of an arbitral settlement from the outset of the treaty negotiations, Marisol Touraine shattered the trust between the treaty partners. She alone is responsible for this situation, ”she said.
A big demonstration in March
For the CNSD, the requested compensation is too heavy. “Amendment n ° 4 thus regulates 82% of prosthetic activity and only insufficiently upgrades 34% of disaster-stricken acts, thus locking all activity in a straitjacket with no prospects for future developments”, she deplores. . “The CNSD refuses to let itself be influenced by the consequences of an arbitral settlement and will never sign an agreement which shows so many losers and disparities between the departments”, adds Catherine Mojaïsky.
In reaction, the CNSD decided to launch actions throughout the territory. For example, it announces that it is suing the arbitral rules as soon as they are released by raising a priority issue of constitutionality. It also calls on all components of the profession (unions, students, learned societies, etc.) and the entire dental industry (dental prosthetists, industrialists in the sector, dental assistants, etc.) to join her for a major event. next March. Finally, the CNSD writes that it will alert citizens “to the deleterious effects of the policy via a communication campaign and will ask the candidates for the next presidential elections to make a clear decision on this issue”.
(1) National Health Insurance Fund.
(2) Federation of Liberal Dental Unions
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