Social Security is ready to increase certain doctors' prices but in return asks them for a drastic reduction in their medication prescriptions, examinations and work stoppages. The subject was at the heart of a new negotiating session lasting more than four hours on Thursday between the six doctors' unions and Medicare.
Each general practitioner generates 700,000 euros per year in expenses on medicines,. examinations and sick leave. This is a sine qua non condition that public authorities impose on any increase in prices, demanded for more than a year by professionals.