New mobilization this Tuesday of doctors: in the midst of the pension conflict, here is another movement which also affects the daily life of the French. Renaud Dély’s editorial.
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A movement that falls badly for the government. At the call of their unions, many liberal doctors will close their practices. They protest against a text carried by a Renaissance deputy, Stéphanie Rist, who wants to allow patients to make an appointment directly with nurses, physiotherapists, or opthalmos, without going through the general practitioner box.
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It is a question of compensating for the lack of liberal doctors, but these are all the more angry that they are demanding a doubling of their basic consultation, so that it goes from 25 to 50 euros. The health insurance royally offered them an increase of 1.50 euros, “a starting point“tried to plead the Minister of Health, François Braun.
Anger in the waiting room
At the heart of this conflict, we find the question of medical deserts. A political problem that is all the more embarrassing for the executive since it first affects rural France and that of small towns, where it is sometimes necessary to travel several tens of kilometers to find a doctor or to wait months to get an appointment. you with a specialist. So, it’s true, this shortage of doctors also concerns large cities, and even Paris for general practitioners, but it is first of all so-called peripheral France which is penalized. The one that is also the most affected by soaring fuel prices, for lack of alternative public transport, or by the closure of certain public services. This France which in recent years has seen the vote for the far right soar or which has been inflamed during the movement of the vests saunes.
The government therefore has much to fear from the wrath of liberal doctors, because their waiting rooms can serve as a sounding board for wider discontent. And doctors also know how to use corporatist reflexes to push back the coercive measures envisaged to push them to practice in such and such a place.
Finally, such a movement illustrates a little more the global crisis of our health system, this jewel of which our country was so proud and whose dysfunctions feed in the opinion this fear of the “great downgrading” that the executive wants to ward off.
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