In the midst of a debate on medical deserts in the Assembly, the PS group in the Assembly will publish a “plan to rebuild the public hospital”. This document, which franceinfo has read in preview, promises to “make caregivers want to treat again”. Jean-Rémi Baudot’s political brief
It is a document of about fifteen pages in total. PS deputies will present a “plan to rebuild the public hospital” on Wednesday, which franceinfo was able to consult, while the National Assembly is examining a bill to fight against medical deserts. According to this plan, which franceinfo reveals this Tuesday exclusively, it is “give caregivers the desire to care.”
In this document, which will be published this Wednesday with the Jean Jaurès Foundation, the Socialists and Related Group of the National Assembly draws up a severe diagnosis of the hospital. According to the authors of this plan, the current system “breaks equality in terms of access to care and patient safety“. The deputies point to the symptoms which illustrate the malaise of the hospital, difficulties of the emergencies, closing of beds, absenteeism, or even deterioration of the working conditions. The Socialists denounce “the largely insufficient measures” taken by the government in recent years .
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“Getting out of the liberal vision at the hospital”
To reverse the trend, the Socialists first advocate salary increases, including for administrative staff who have not always benefited from health Ségur bonuses. Next, the plan proposes to increase the numerus clausus by 50% and to rethink the training of caregivers by introducing more selection to reduce dropouts among future nurses and caregivers.
Finally, we remember that the government recently tightened the law. The PS deputies also propose to go further on temporary workers. The Socialists want to further lower the scales and apply maximum working time for temporary workers, but only once the salaries of all caregivers have been raised. The socialist group also wants to go further on temporary workers, while the government has recently toughened the law: lower scales and maximum working time, but only once the salaries of all caregivers have been raised.
A program of the PS to be ready to govern?
Obviously, these proposals have a cost. Just the part of the plan on caregivers, it amounts to 7 billion euros per year. In all, this plan is estimated at almost 17 billion euros per year. To finance it, the deputies advocate a tax on the superprofits of the laboratories, as well as the end of certain exemptions from social security contributions. The authors of the plan claim to spend more. “We must get out of the liberal vision that presided over the governance of the hospital“, explains the PS deputy from Calvados Arthur Delaporte. He also pleads for a health programming law as exists for the army or education.
A useful precision: it is not a Nupes plan, it is the Socialist and Related deputies who sign the document. The ambition of the PS with this plan for the hospital is to try to weigh in on the debate. Socialists have often been accused of not having worked in recent years. In the coming months, this project on the hospital will be used in small bits, in the form of amendments, in particular in the next social security budget (PLFSS). And then some are already dreaming further. As one socialist executive put it: “It must feed the programmatic base of the PS, for the day when we return to the responsibilities“.