deadlocked negotiations, a “defeat to put in Mr. Macron’s buttonhole”, for the UFML union

“This defeat is to be put in Mr Macron’s buttonhole”, reacts Jérôme Marty, president of the French Union for Free Medicine (UFML), this Monday on franceinfo, while negotiations on new consultation rates are at an impasse. “He decided that”, he insists, with reference to these new tariffs. For general practitioners, Health Insurance proposes to increase the basic consultation to 26.50 euros, and to 30 euros for those who meet several criteria such as being the attending physician for at least 1,200 patients or even working in a medical desert. .

The new medical agreement, which provides for these revaluations, will not be signed, because “the six representative unions [de généralistes] are united and cannot accept it”, according to him. In the absence of an agreement by this Tuesday evening, a senior official will be responsible for writing a new one within three months. “We will certainly have worse, but we will renegotiate in a few months”, he assures. Quit putting pressure on the government.

The UFML asks for a consultation at 50 euros for all

“If he does not want to listen, today there are thousands and thousands of doctors who are beginning to look at deconvention as a solution”, he warns. In other words, “to leave the convention [avec l’Assurance maladie] and to go and build another sector with private insurance, with mutual insurance, etc.”. “We are here today, it’s historic”he points out.

“We are organizing next week at the Paris Inter-University Center a deconvention meeting, so as to look at this subject and organize, if necessary, collective deconventions in a few months”, he indicates. At this moment, “We will say to the government ‘here we have 15,000 doctors who want to come out of the way, what are you doing to keep them? Are you renegotiating?'”. The UFML sets the bar high: it calls for an unconditional increase and a consultation at 50 euros for all general practitioners.