The clinics will participate in the demonstration of doctors on March 15 against the bill of health, and in defense of liberal medicine and private hospitalization.
The world of health will be in the streets on March 15 to protest against Marisol Touraine’s health bill. the Movement for the Health of All ”, which brings together 45 student organizations and unions of health professionals, calls on nurses but also doctors, dental surgeons, physiotherapists, speech therapists, orthoptists, biologists, chiropodists, hearing care professionals and opticians to oppose the questioning of their liberal exercise. And, at the end of the week, the csr clinics are associated with the movement called for by the Federation of Private Hospitalization (FHP).
Save liberal medicine
In a press release published on Thursday, the FHP wrote: “We will march on March 15 first to express our solidarity with doctors and to denounce the killing of private hospitalization and liberal medicine. We will also demonstrate to defend the general interest and alert the French of what is happening: namely the dismantling of the health system resulting from 1945 and what makes its strength: the plurality of actors, public and private, and freedom to be able to choose his doctor and his establishment ”, declared Lamine Gharbi, president of the FHP, which brings together 1,000 private clinics and hospitals, during a press conference.
An interrupted consultation on the health law
The FHP also deplores the “complete silting up” of discussions within the framework of the consultation group on the health bill. She criticizes in particular the Ministry of Health for having canceled the last three meetings scheduled.
“We have the impression that the government is trying to buy time. Things are not moving forward. We have no feedback. This is all the more worrying less than fifteen days before the arrival of the bill in the Committee on Social Affairs. Who are we laughing at ? Lamine Gharbi wonders.
The return of the private / public confrontation
And with regard to their demands, the FHP recalls that its position on the public hospital service (SHP) provided for in the health law is simple: “the obligation for clinics to put an end to excess fees in order to be able to do part of the future SPH is inapplicable. It is the State which authorizes additional fees, a practice tolerated because of the non-revaluation of tariffs for twenty years.
The clinics do not have the power or the will to regulate these additional fees in place of the State. It is up to him to take his responsibilities and, in the first place, “to revalue the fees at their fair value”, it is written in the press release.
Subsequently, Lamine Gharbi also relaunched hostilities with public hospitals: “It will also be necessary to mention the flagrant inconsistency in allowing liberal activity to exist with excess fees at the public hospital, which could be a member of the law. SPH, and to ban it for clinics. “
An unfair pricing campaign
Finally, the FHP protests against the new “unfair” pricing campaign, which in 2015 would result in a recovery of the entire CICE (1) and reductions in the burden of the Responsibility Pact, via a reduction in tariffs to the tune of 208 million euros, while private hospitalization was preparing to negotiate the creation of 2,700 jobs for an amount of 74 M €. “
And for the head of clinics “the pompom” in this case, it is the non-publication of the rates on March 1, “unheard of for ten years. “” The ministry asks hospitals to stop billing. We will thus strangle fragile clinics, whose cash flow is already tight. This augurs well for the difficulties that doctors will suffer tomorrow with the administration. This is the best argument against generalized third-party payment, ”he concludes.
(1) Tax credit for competitiveness and employment
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