In Franconville, Nicolas Sarkozy announced a large plan “Liberal medicine 2020” which would be initiated in the summer of 2017 if he is elected. Like Alain Juppé, he wants to remove third-party payment.
If we look closely at the results of the last presidential elections, the vote of the liberal doctors tilts rather to the right. And this information has not escaped the candidates for the primary of the right and the center for the presidential election of 2017. The first round is scheduled for November 20. Neck-to-neck with Alain Juppé in the polls, Nicolas Sarkozy has outright announced that he would propose “a large liberal medicine plan 2020”.
He sketched the first lines on Monday in Franconville (Val-d’Oise) where he had come to visit a medical imaging center before meeting with health professionals. In the meeting which followed these exchanges, he repeatedly tackled Marisol Touraine, the current Minister of Health.
All against the generalized third-party payment
Its proposals, it is true, are the opposite of the theses defended by the current Minister of Health. Thus, he first said that he wanted to remove “immediately the generalized third-party payment”. “With this third-party payment, we are told that it is free. It’s a lie. It relieves responsibility and it is your contributions that pay, ”said Nicolas Sarkozy from the podium. “I believe in liberal medicine. If we have one of the best medicines in the world, it is because you can choose your doctor “, or,” with the generalized third-party payment, the doctor’s only client is Health Insurance, “he said. he added, concluding that he “will never accept (it) the functionarization of French liberal medicine”.
Same story with Alain Juppé. Morning guest of Franceinfo this Tuesday, the current mayor of Bordeaux confided that “third-party payment is a bad idea. We cannot reform health by alienating the professionals ”.
Without hesitation, he assured that he would come back to it, deleting it. This proposal is now a battle horse for the candidates of the Les Républicains (LR) party since Bruno Le Maire, the third man in the primary from the right and the center, also says he is “totally opposed to the generalization of third-party payment, which, according to him, would make practitioners public, weaken patients, and give greater weight to complementary health ”, he said recently in the Doctor’s Daily.
Nicolas Sarkozy’s healthy menu
In his Franconville speech, the candidate Nicolas Sarkozy hammered home that he wanted to “give back all its place to liberal medicine”. This requires, according to him, a revaluation of the remuneration of liberal doctors, especially in areas of medical desert. He also pleaded for the development of multidisciplinary houses, and the reduction of “red tape”. “We will end up dying, standards, reports, requests in ten copies!” », Commented the candidate in front of his supporters. “We must alleviate all that so that you find medical time,” he blurted out in front of doctors who constantly complain of the administrative overload.
In addition, Nicolas Sarkozy has formulated shock proposals. According to him, the evolution of the system cannot go without “making people more responsible”. “Society cannot be responsible for your health which you did not take care of”, taking the example of these “addict” smokers.
With him in power, the latter would thus be less well taken care of? The proposal deserves to be clarified because it is already controversial. Some observers point out that addictive consumption (alcohol, tobacco, etc.) is often found among disadvantaged populations.
Finally, Nicolas Sarkozy had a word for the hospital workers by posing the principle of the autonomy of hospitals. “I would like us to do for hospitals what we did for universities”, a reference to the reform undertaken during his five-year term (2007-2012). “We recognize the autonomy of hospitals, that means that they themselves choose the weekly working time, the number of beds, their doctors,” he concluded.
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