André Grimaldi, diabetologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, co-signs a petition to save social security, with doctors like Alain Fisher, specialist in gene therapy at the Necker hospital, the pulmonologist Irène Frachon, known for having alerted on the Mediator, and politicians like Michel Rocard.
The 140 signatories of this text call for a public debate followed by a vote in the National Assembly so that the best possible way to finance health expenditure is chosen, i.e. either financing by Social Security, or “by a complementary private insurer”.
In the columns of Le Parisien, Professor Grimaldi explains the reason for this petition. The signatories regret a “creeping privatization of Health Insurance” with a gradual disengagement of Social Security on routine care in favor of mutual and complementary health. In other words, they are worried about seeing basic care such as medicines, spa treatments, physiotherapy sessions and consultations with a doctor no longer reimbursed by Social Security as is currently the case, but by mutual insurance companies and insurers. private. A trend of increasing health inequalities that the signatories sum up as follows: “We are in the process of moving, without democratic debate, from a logic of solidarity support for all to a logic of assistance for the poorest and insurance for the richest”.
In addition, the petition criticizes a measure which it believes is not going in the right direction, that of raising the income ceiling which gives access to complementary health insurance. While since July 1, 350,000 additional French people have now right to mutual insurance, this initiative prepares even more for a “dissolution of the compulsory Social Security”. In short, the authors of the petition believe that there are too many mutuals and not enough Secu. Are the French of the same opinion? A debate would make that clear.
