Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister of Health and Access to Care, was the guest of franceinfo evening on Friday.
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“There is no question of touching State Medical Aid”says Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister of Health and Access to Care in franceinfo evening Friday October 4. “I want everyone to be reassured on this point”she adds while Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior, said on September 23 that he wanted to review the criteria for obtaining State Medical Aid (AME) for people in an irregular situation in France.
Prime Minister Michel Barnier estimated on France 2, Thursday evening, that we “can manage better” the AME adding that “It’s a broader question, we will look at things calmly so that those who are entitled to it can receive it.”
“I am a doctor, I talk about medicine and public health”she continues, insisting on the fact that the AME is “also insurance on the health of the French, in particular to avoid certain contagions”. The report by Claude Evin and Patrick Stefanini, made public in December 2023, “said very simply that it is a useful device and well controlled by health insurance very strictly”explains Geneviève Darrieussecq. The minister calls for “not to have taboos” on this subject “but no fantasy either”.
The Minister of Health and Access to Care also says “satisfied” that the Prime Minister is in favor of resuming examination of the end-of-life bill in the National Assembly, in particular because it contains a “very important part of the development and deployment of palliative care”. The precise timetable for the resumption of the debates remains unknown.
On the subject of active assistance in dying, she claims to be one of those who “were looking for the ridge path” For “to help the few rare people who need this device”when she participated in the debates last spring as a deputy. Geneviève Darrieussecq recalls having made amendments so that the injection in the context of active assistance in dying is not considered as an “act of care”. When she was an MP, she proposed that doctors who perform this injection be “registered as volunteers” on lists which will not be “for everyone”.