Generalists, radiologists or biologists, several specialists of the UFML are preparing a week of closure of private practices. According to these striking doctors, there are plenty of reasons for anger.
“First, there is the introduction of generalized third-party payment which will change our relationship with patients. We will be under the control of payers – health insurance and complementary health insurance – which will create conflicts of interest and risks of pressure on our prescriptions ”explains Jérôme Marty, President of the French Union for Free Medicine (UFML) in the columns of the Parisian. In an article published this Sunday in the daily, several liberal doctors announce their intention to close their liberal medical practices for a week from December 2. According to information revealed by Le Parisien, this strike, voted on last night almost unanimously by some 300 health professionals from all regions meeting at Cochin hospital in Paris, was decided on the initiative of the UFML. This association created a year ago, at the time of the movement on Facebook “Doctors are not pigeons”, had attracted more than 30,000 followers.
An increasingly heavy administrative yoke according to these liberals
Discontent has been mounting among the Liberals for several months with a growing list of grievances. If the third-party payment must be and must remain a freedom according to the UFML, the association especially denounces the creation of a medicine under direct dependence of the paying agencies, which will lock up the doctors, will multiply without limit their administrative constraints and will restrict definitively. the most basic of their freedoms. “I accuse Marisol Touraine of wanting to install quota medicine and queues tomorrow, English-style medicine. I accuse the government of promoting complementary organizations through fiscal or state measures. I accuse Mrs. Touraine of daily insults to the profession for which she is responsible ”are some of the grievances clearly hammered out on the posters of the UFML. Finally, the implementation of new access to care contracts intended to limit fee overruns and the closure of certain care networks are also at the heart of the anger of these liberal health professionals.
An action that could impact all of France
“It is time for the medical profession to take control of its future” can we read on one of the posters created by the UFML. If the idea of closing liberal medical practices on the eve of the next municipal elections is maintained, this action could indeed have consequences throughout the territory. Indeed, the UFML currently has nearly 5,000 members. “Since the government is mistreating us, we are going to show the French what it is like for a France without liberal medicine” threatens Dr Jean Paul Hamon, president of the Federation of Doctors of France and at the origin of this closure proposal cabinets. In addition, the UFML intends to express its discontent in another way which is provocative to say the least. Still according to the Parisian, from December 2, the association intends to set up a tent in front of the Hôtel Dieu, in Paris, with a banner: “Here, we treat less at home than opposite …”
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