The Minister of Health also recalled that the AME represented “0.5%, even a little less, of the entire Social Security budget”.
Within the government, two visions differ. On the one hand, that of the Minister of Health, who recalled, Sunday, May 28 on RTL, that the state medical aid (AME) presents “public health issues”. On the other, that of the Minister of the Interior, who said he was ready, in an interview published on Saturday in The Parisian, to discussas part of the future immigration bill, the terms of this system which covers 100% of medical and hospital costs for foreigners in an irregular situation present in France for at least three months, and that Les Républicains want to limit to emergency medical aid.
Questioned on this subject at the “Grand Jury” RTL/LCI/Le Figarothe Minister of Health recalled that the AME represented “0.5%, even a little less, of the entire Social Security budget”and underlined that it presented challenges “extremely strong which are public health issues”.
As for reducing it to emergency medical aid, “What does the emergency mean, how long does it mean? Are we going to treat diabetes that is unbalanced and that we are going to let unbalance afterwards?” asked François Braun. If there is “a new Covid that arrives in people who could benefit from state medical aid, we are not going to treat them (…) and we are going to let the disease develop? We need a global vision of public health”, he insisted. However, he judged “abnormal that there are channels to come and do [en France] care that can be provided in the country of origin of these patients”. “So a balance has to be found”estimated the emergency doctor.
A residence permit to compensate for the shortage of caregivers
Still concerning the future immigration law, the minister also claims to have “work” with Gérald Darmanin on the extension to health professions of “talent passport”previously reserved for foreign researchers with a contract with a research unit in France. “I would like to extend it initially to trades [comme] doctors, dental surgeons, pharmacists, midwives because that is where we have the greatest lack of professionals”he explained.
The condition would be “a contract with an establishment” of health, which would allow them to come to France and would give them “thirteen months to give them time to pass the knowledge validation exam”. Passing this exam would give “a four-year residence permit” which would allow them “to bring their families”developed the minister.