The Minister of Health argued that this sector “has extraordinary profits in the world of health” and mentioned the figure of “3 billion in profits in 2021.”
One strike hides another. If the liberal doctors have renewed their social movement for this week again, the biologists have also filed a renewable strike notice from next Monday. In fact, next week, city laboratories, except those in health establishments, should keep the door closed according to RMC.
“Taking the health of the French hostage is not normal”
Asked about the subject this Thursday morning on France 2, the Minister of Health François Braun harshly judged the movement. “It’s a sector that has extraordinary profits in the world of health, 3 billion profits in 2021 anyway”, he began.
“These 3 billion is Social Security, it is the money of the French, yours, mine”, underlined the former president of the SAMU and the Emergencies of France.
As he had already done for the liberal doctors last week, the minister “condemned” the strike. “It is irresponsible. Any strike that takes the health of the French hostage, I will condemn it. I do not condemn the right to strike, it is normal, but taking the health of the French hostage, it is not normal” .
arm wrestling
As RMC indicates, the announcement of this strike was initially to be given on Friday afternoon, during a press conference by the Alliance for Medical Biology (which brings together all the players in the profession), in the wake of Emmanuel Macron’s wishes to health professionals. However, the decision seems to have already been made.
In an email sent to its partners and customers, the Bioaxiome laboratory explains that this strike movement will last “from Monday January 9 to Sunday January 15”. It is part of a long showdown that biologists have engaged with Medicare.
In return for the profits made during the Covid period, the government intends to impose a price reduction on laboratories affecting all medical analysis acts, and which would continue for the following years. A decrease which, according to the main concerned, could be the cause of the closure of several hundred laboratories.
