Consideration of the Health Bill has been postponed until next week. The unions denounce a forced passage.
The examination of the Health bill in the National Assembly is postponed for the third time. It will take place early next week, the Minister of Health, Marisol Touraine, announced on Wednesday to the deputies.
This decision was motivated by the desire of “many parliamentarians” to participate in tributes to the victims of the November 13 attacks in their constituencies. The bill, which was due to be considered on Monday, had already been postponed to Tuesday due to Congress, then to Thursday.
“Respect”
The medical unions, for their part, have suspended their mobilization, in the current context of attacks. “It is about respect vis-à-vis the institutions, which must respond to the demand of the French in terms of security,” says Dr. Patrick Gasser, president of the specialist branch of the CSMF, the majority union among doctors. liberals.
However, these unions consider unfounded the examination of the health bill, which they wish to postpone until a return to a calm climate. “The government has shown, through the voice of its minister, an unparalleled institutional rigidity, maintaining in the parliamentary calendar a text of law which is not of any urgency for the security of the French, yet the only subject of their concerns at present”, write thus the authors of a press release from the “Movement for the Health of All”, which brings together protesting health professionals.
Patrick Gasser, president of the CSMF medical specialists: ” We think that the government has something else to think about than to discuss again the law of health. “
Due to the state of emergency, decreed for a period of three months, gatherings are prohibited in France. Some unions, such as MG France, have indicated that the mobilization against third-party payment will resume later.
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