While Marisol Touraine is convinced that the generalized third-party payment will be adopted by doctors, the majority union reiterates its call for civil disobedience.
Marisol Touraine capitulates on the generalized third party payment. This Friday morning, the Minister of Health announced that she will not present a new law, after the partial rejection by the Constitutional Council of the generalized third-party payment system. It was, however, one of the flagship measures of the Health bill.
The Minister however stressed that the Council had not “questioned” the generalized third party payment. In fact, the absence of advance payments during a consultation will become a right in November 2017. From this date, patients will no longer have to advance the part reimbursed by social security. On the other hand, they will have to pay the mutual part, that is to say approximately 7 euros.
However, for physicians who wish, the device can be applied. The Minister is also convinced that the third party payment will become “a reflex and a habit in our country”. So to encourage doctors to adopt it, Marisol Touraine assured that a simple system will be put in place.
A simple system
This project will therefore be continued by complementary health insurance despite the decision of the Constitutional Council. “It is a service acclaimed by the French,” said Etienne Caniard, president of Mutualité Française. Complementaries and their partners will work with physicians who so wish in order to prevent patients from suffering from this decision ”. And to add: “It is now urgent to overcome the dogmatic oppositions to the third party payment fueled by union overbids. “
But liberal doctors’ unions do not seem ready to end the conflict that began months ago. Jean Paul-Ortiz, president of the CSMF (1), the main union of liberal doctors, told Why actor that “the doctors did not want the generalized third-party payment”.
He also reiterated his call “for civil disobedience with regard to the generalized third-party payment for all patients including those in ALD (long-term illness, editor’s note) ”.
Jean-Paul Ortiz, president of the CSMF: ” No that does not suit us because we do not want the CSMF of the generalized third party payment. “
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