The third-party payment will not be generalized immediately, but it is not abandoned. The Minister of Health has announced a reassessment of the device.
No timetable, but a promise. The third party payment will be well generalized. The Minister of Health assured him on July 11 at the microphone of France Inter. The principle of the obligation remains under debate, but the measure will be applied. “Yes, we’re going to go,” said Agnès Buzyn. The question is to know with what method. “
For the tenant of avenue Duquesne, things are clear. Facilitating access to care should not come at the expense of health professionals. And for now, that cannot be guaranteed. There are many technical problems, and the measure risks increasing the administrative burden for private doctors.
If the interest of the third party payer is beyond doubt, the Minister of Health prefers to spare those who apply it. “We want doctors to find a facility in this third-party payment, we need to give them medical time rather than administrative time”, she insisted on France Inter.
No abandonment
The General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas) was therefore seized. It will have to assess the system set up by Marisol Touraine, former Minister of Health. Pending the conclusions of the report, Agnès Buzyn prefers to procrastinate.
It must be said that the stake is major: the law modernizing the health system does not provide for sanctions against doctors who refuse to apply third-party payment. To hold them up would therefore be counterproductive.
However, the Minister of Health refuses to talk about abandoning the third party payment. “I never said he was suspended. There, we put everything flat ”, she explained to Release. Generalization will still have to wait a little longer.
The Igas report is expected in September, when Health Insurance will also submit an analysis document. The start of work is therefore likely to be delayed.
PMA for all in 2018
Medically assisted procreation (MAP), accessible to all from 2018? In principle, Agnès Buzyn is not opposed to it. Like the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), which issued a favorable opinion on this development, the Minister of Health is considering reform. “It is likely that the discussion will take place in 2018, with the reform of bioethics laws,” said the tenant of avenue Duquesne. The aim is to translate CCNE’s opinion into legislation. “I think that French society is ready for it,” said the Minister of Health. The debate promises to be heated all the same.
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