two complaints filed before the order of doctors against LR senators who voted to abolish the AME

Two practitioners filed complaints on Friday, November 10 before the Order of Physicians for violation of the Public Health Code against two Les Républicains (LR) senators, also professional doctors, who voted to abolish state medical aid (AME) during the debates on the immigration bill. This system fully covers the health costs of illegal foreigners present in France for at least three months. The text must now be examined by the National Assembly. Among the right and center senators who voted for the reform are around fifteen professional caregivers, doctors, pharmacists and nurses.

“We denounce, with numerous associations and health professionals, the complicity of Ms. Marie Mercier, senator, and Mr. Jean-François Rapin, senator, members of an assembly whose decisions directly undermine physical health and psychological health of a population known to be particularly vulnerable”write in their complaints doctors Georges Yoram Federmann, a psychiatrist based in Strasbourg, and Jean Doubovetzky, a general practitioner practicing in Albi.

The suppression of the AME considered a “heresy”

According to the plaintiffs, the two targeted senators, by voting to end the AME, violated five articles of the Public Health Code, including article R.4127-7 which stipulates that “the doctor must listen, examine, advise or treat with the same conscience all people whatever their origin, morals and family situation, their membership or non-membership of a specific ethnic group, nation or religion, their disability or their state of health, their reputation or the feelings he may have towards them. He must provide his assistance in all circumstances.

Voting to abolish the AME is in “contradiction with the oath taken by doctors”. The Federation of Public Hospitals had already estimated on Wednesday that the abolition of the AME was “a heresy”.