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From 2023, each French person will be offered three free medical visits at 25, 45 and then 65, three key ages in life. The measure aims to strengthen prevention, one of the weak points of the healthcare system.
Three free preventive consultations will soon be offered to the French. From 2023, they will be able to consult at three key ages in their adult life: at age 25 for vaccination monitoring and screening for possible addictions, at age 45 to detect certain cancers early, and at age 65, to prevent loss. autonomy. The objective is to anticipate, for greater efficiency.
“This is interesting from two points of view. The first is that it will lead to better health, because prevention is always better than cure. And the second is an economic interest, because taking care of a disease early is always less expensive than taking care of it later.“, comments the doctor and journalist Damien Mascret. For the government, it is above all a question of attracting the patients most on the margins of the health system. According to Dr. Arnaud Saada, general practitioner, the measure will however be difficult to put in place. For him, the problem is above all that “access to care“, linked to the lack of doctors.