It will have been necessary to wait for the last days of the campaign of the primaries of the right and the center to finally see the subject on the table. Last night, during the last televised debate, the two finalists crossed swords over the future of our health care system. With very different approaches. They say a lot about the conception of each to govern the country and to reform it.
On the right, François Fillon proposes “a destatization of social security”. For him, the observation is simple: our system is leaking and we are digging into the deficits that future generations will have to fill. The former Prime Minister of Nicolas Sarkozy therefore proposes to define two “baskets of care”. The first, called solidarity, would include long-term conditions and would be covered by health insurance. The second, called individual, would be carried by the citizens and the complementary ones.
Clearly, health expenses related to diabetes or cancer would be reimbursed by the community, those for the flu would be at our expense.
A horse remedy that contrasts with the homeopathic prescriptions of previous governments. In the first case, the evil is vigorously treated at the root, in the second, the symptoms are calmed.
Faced with third-party payment for all, Dr. Fillon opposes responsibility for everyone.
At the center, Alain Juppé wants to tackle waste, regulate and modernize the system without upsetting it. No electric shock which could be fatal.
The former Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac remembers the demonstrations of 1995 against the reform of pensions and social security. The mayor of Bordeaux has since this episode acquired the conviction that a country like France cannot be reformed by force.
In fact, everything happens as if François Fillon were today donning the costume of Alain Juppé from 1995. By being straight in his boots.
Sunday, the result of the second round will say a lot about the state of mind of the French for the future.
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with Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet and Jean Leonetti,
health spokespersons for François Fillon and Alain Juppé
