According to the Ciss Barometer 2015, generalizing third-party payment is a necessity to fight against the renunciation of healthcare. The Collective is also concerned about the rights of patients at the end of their life, which are too little understood.
How are the rights of the sick in France? This is the question answered by the latest Barometer 2015 (1) of the CISS (2) published this Wednesday. In terms of results, the Collective is pleased that 80% of our fellow citizens consider that their right to access to healthcare is well applied.
Nevertheless, the Ciss warns that these good results should not “obscure the concrete measures that we must have the courage to collectively take to respond to the difficulties encountered by the remaining 20%. “
Advance of costs, a reason for waiving treatment
On these difficulties precisely, the CISS insists on the importance of the implementation of generalized third-party payment. The goal is to respond to the 25% of French people who (in the barometer) admit to having already given up on consulting a doctor because of its cost. In addition, 17% of our fellow citizens declared having already given up on consulting because of the obligation to advance the amount of the consultation.
A share that even reaches 25% for those under 35 or for people with an income of less than 1,500 euros / month. Faced with these results, Christian Saout, secretary general of the CISS, is worried about the possible renunciation of the Minister of Health to generalize the third-party payment.
Listen to Christian Saout, secretary general of the CISS: ” Obviously, this possible decline in third-party payment worries us. To abandon it would be disastrous news for the rights of the sick. “
The rights on the end of life are unknown to patients
Other figures in this report, those on the rights of patients at the end of life, which remain among the least known and least well applied according to the people questioned.. For example, 19% of French people say they are not aware of the right to officially designate a trusted person to be accompanied throughout care and the right to interrupt treatment.
In addition, 21% of French people say they do not know the right to write advance directives. However, these make it possible to express wishes for his end of life. In this regard, Christian Saout thinks that making them more restrictive to doctors, as provided for in the Claeys / Leonetti law proposal on the end of life, is a good thing.
Listen to Christian Saout : ” We all want to be in control of our lives, so making them binding on doctors is a good thing. What is a pity is that this right is ignored because of the absence of major campaigns. “
Health advice: the doctor is well ahead of the Net
Finally, when patients wish to obtain advice on choosing a professional or a health establishment, they turn to the medical profession 9 times out of 10. Only 8% cosult their loved ones, and the Internet is cited by only 2% of French people. The CISS also notes that interest in the Internet as a source of health information is stabilizing.
In figures, the French are indeed very skeptical about the possibilities that the information available online could give in terms of self-diagnosis and self-medication for example (31%, stable).
Listen to Christian Saout : ” This highlights the need for a reference health information site. Normally the Health Law must provide this answer because it provides for a portal… “
(1) LH2-BVA survey for the CISS, carried out on February 19 and 21, 2015 by telephone with a sample of 1,008 people, representative of the French population aged 15 and over.
(2) Interassociative Health Collective
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