“We need a public dependency service”, estimated Adrien Quatennens, coordinator of La France insoumise, this Sunday in Political Questions on France Inter. After the accusations of abuse in the nursing homes of the Orpea group, revealed by the book The Gravediggersthe deputy from the North proposed – in accordance with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s L’Avenir en commun program – “to reintegrate private structures into a public service”.
“Now we even talk about gray gold”he denounced, pointing to these “Ehpad and lucrative companies” for who “taking care of our oldest and sometimes more profitable than opening a shopping center” and that “keep gaining market share”that is “more than 20%”according to his figures. “It is unbearable that we make profits on the backs of our elderly people and that families have to bear exorbitant costs for a framework that is not up to what they expect and that we we have the right to wait for our families and our elders”, added Adrien Quatennens. According to him, it is the private establishments “the most expensive”costing “on average 42,000 euros per year” Who “have the lowest staff-to-staff ratio”with “23 staff per 100 residents”.
The representative of insubordinate France also proposed to “create the number of places we need” in these nursing homes. “I believe that we have 608,000 places and we must go by 2030, to meet the needs of the population, to 730,000 places”said Adrien Quatennens, adding “that you really have to go there”. Furthermore, according to him, it is necessary to recruit “210,000 caregivers” generally, “for nursing homes and beyond”. For this, the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon has calculated a budget, “from 2022 20 billion more for nursing homes and home help”.
At the question, “how to finance?”, Adrien Quatennens recalled that “During the health crisis, billionaires increased their wealth by 236 billion”estimating that there is, there, “enough to multiply by 4 the budget of the public hospital”. “We all need to reassure ourselves that financing is not a problem as long as we accept the idea that it is inconceivable to do anything other than share the wealth, he indicated. If we taxed 0.5% on dividends only, we could collect 1 billion. If we taxed funded pensions by 2%, we could get 2 billion. There are many things to do that allow us to recover money.“