Sales are open. Not those where one rushes to buy a product or an item of clothing at -40%, I am talking here about the counter opened by declared or undeclared candidates for the presidential election or their party’s primaries.
All of them promise us with their hands on their hearts that they have heard the ” Stop the demagoguery chanted louder and louder by public opinion, and yet everyone gives in shamelessly. Just look at their program or their statements.
In this race for I will shave for free social protection is an excellent indicator. On the one hand, health represents the most precious good of the French, on the other, professionals, liberal or hospital, doctors or nurses, constantly complain of being strangled by economy measures. In the midst of these claims, the funding that each of us provides through compulsory levies. Health policy consists of a permanent arbitration between two often opposing forces.
But the miracle of an election is to overcome the laws of physics and economics to satisfy both sides.
Last week, Marine Le Pen opened the ball by proposing the management by the community of the loss of autonomy and dependence. The candidate of National Front assured that it would lower “the bill of the 7 billion euros which remain the responsibility of the families. »
This Thursday, in The ParisianBruno Le Maire, primary candidate The Republicans, promises to reimburse 100% for dental care, prostheses, a pair of glasses every four years. Incidentally, the LR candidate removes the generalized third-party payment which irritates liberal doctors, leaves it to hospitals to arrange the 35 hours and refuses to reduce the number of hospital staff.
If not ambitious, the program is generous. But how to fund it? Cut into waste, remove state medical aid, deliver drugs to the unit, replies the political leader. On the one hand, billions spent, on the other, millions collected, this is what is called a sleight of hand.
But, basically, why would the suitors deprive themselves of supplying this market of promises when the government excels in the matter. It is not far from the time when Marisol Touraine asked hospitals to tighten their belts. Yesterday, during the big meeting of the profession, the Minister of Health took out a kitty of 2 billion euros to calm the anger of hospital workers. It will be spread over four years. That’s good, it’s his successors who will have to take care of the implementation of this measure. With all that they have already promised, the task will not be easy!