After the nurses at the beginning of the week and the pharmacists on Thursday, it is the turn of the dental surgeons to beat the Parisian pavement today and to protest against the authorities. “With an insurrectionary situation, entrust the Parisian one of their representatives. It must be said that after four months of negotiations with the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam), the three trade union organizations (FDSL, CNSD, UJCD) overwhelmingly rejected the draft agreement.
The stakes are high, explains the daily. In return for an increase in the prices of routine care, such as cavities, the director of the Cnam wishes to cap the price of prostheses. These represent 64% of dentists’ income. “If we do not set a cap, it’s like giving 806 million euros without guarantee that the rest to be borne by patients will drop”, argues the director of the Cnam, Nicolas Revel.
By forgetting perhaps a little quickly that it was the public authorities themselves who imagined this system thirty years ago: free prices on prostheses to limit prices and therefore reimbursements on routine care.
But the Health Insurance does not budge, nearly half (42%) of the 806 million euros put on the table are used to revalue fees, or 9,000 euros more each year for a dentist.
Care that avoids prostheses must be better supported, object professionals. They also made it known in a letter addressed to François Hollande, tells us The Parisian.
The president of the CNSD, she does not hesitate to denounce a political maneuver. “What caused the discussion, which was off to a good start, to stall, was the brutal and political intervention of the minister, Marisol Touraine, regrets Catherine Mojaïsky. Its goal is clear: to be able to announce better access to dental care during the presidential campaign. »
In the absence of an agreement, an arbitration settlement should intervene to decide on the fate of the 37,000 dentists. A missed opportunity, notes the journalist. “Dentists have been waiting for thirty years for a real overhaul of prices and the end of the lawsuit against them on the price of prostheses”.
