the hunt for false sick leaves

Three words: work stoppage. After entering them into a search engine and receiving some details about a migraine, a teleconsultation with an unknown doctor is possible. A quick basic questionnaire later and the doctor agrees to suspend the patient for a day or two. “to see if the crisis goes away”. Practices that do not pass with Health Insurance, which lost 100 million euros in 2021 due to stoppages contracted with a doctor unknown to the patient.

As a response, Health Insurance no longer wishes to cover these specific stops, which delights Jérôme Marty, president of the union of the French Union for Free Medicine. “There is a facilitation of the search for sick leave for some patients (…) The platforms are launched in financial logics and satisfy patients they do not know and fit into their economic logic”. This flagship measure of the social security financing project will be presented on Monday 26 September.