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The new Minister of the Interior wants to tighten access to state medical aid for foreigners. Eight former Ministers of Health have sounded the alarm on such provisions in a column in Le Monde.
At the Argenteuil emergency room (Val-d’Oise), the emergency rooms see foreigners in an irregular and precarious situation passing through every day who benefit from state medical aid. Thanks to this help, care is 100% covered, without which some would never have been able to be treated. This support is necessary for the company, according to the head of the establishment’s department. However, Bruno Retailleau, the new Minister of the Interior, does indeed wish to revise this aid.
According to Bruno Retailleau, the system would encourage immigration. A statement that outrages the medical sector. In a forum, eight former health ministers unanimously call for maintaining state medical aid. “We regret that the politicization of the debate is taking place on an issue of public health,” declared the former Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn. According to former Ministers of Health, weakening the AME means exposing our system to increased pressure for care. The AME represents less than one percent of the health spending budget.
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