The Minister of Health wants us to “be able to have access to a doctor at night, on weekends and during the day”.
“It’s give-and-take”. The Minister of Health François Braun spoke on France 2 about the claims of the liberal doctors who are demonstrating this Thursday in Paris. On strike for the second week in a row, they are demanding in particular a doubling of the consultation fee from 25 to 50 euros to create a “shock of attractiveness” towards city medicine under tension.
“I am ready to increase the prices of the consultation, as soon as the needs of the French are met”, explained François Braun.
Recalling that there is currently, like every five years, “conventional negotiation between the unions of doctors and health insurance”, he judges that “everyone shows the muscles to get what they want” on this occasion ; but asks to let “this negotiation go to the end”, that is to say at the end of February.
“Rights and duties”
François Braun puts forward a “win-win principle”. In exchange for the increase in the price of consultations, he wants the “650,000 French people who are chronically ill to have a attending physician”. And also that we “can have access to a doctor at night, on weekends and during the day”. The Minister emphasizes a logic of “rights” and “duties”.
The previous week, from the Annecy hospital center in Haute-Savoie, François Braun had criticized a “particularly unwelcome” strike, this one taking place at a time when the country is facing a triple epidemic of Covid-19, flu and bronchiolitis.
