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“If we have a medical appointment and we don’t come, we pay!” : Will Gabriel Attal succeed in applying the “rabbit tax”?

2024-01-30T18:09:14.893Z

Highlights: Gabriel Attal has committed to applying a financial penalty to patients who cancel without warning. A long-standing request from doctors and LR senators. “It’s a simple principle: if you have a medical appointment and you don’t come, you pay!” declared Gabriel Attal during his general policy speech. Between 6 and 10% of patients do not show up for their appointment, according to estimates from the Academy of Medicine and the National Council of the Order.


DECRYPTION - The Prime Minister has committed to applying a financial penalty to patients who cancel without warning. A long-standing request from doctors and LR senators.


“It’s a simple principle: if you have a medical appointment and you don’t come, you pay!”

declared Gabriel Attal during his general policy speech.

The Prime Minister clearly expressed himself in favor of a financial penalty to fight against the incivility of patients who do not come to their appointment without warning and cause

doctors to lose

“millions of hours” .

A real scourge when between 6 and 10% of patients do not show up for their appointment, according to estimates from the Academy of Medicine and the National Council of the Order, representing 27 million non-appointments. honored when other patients could have benefited.

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Without giving more details at this stage, the Prime Minister has thus resurrected the

“rabbit tax”

, requested for a long time by exasperated doctors, and introduced by LR senators in the latest Social Security financing bill.

Defended by Senator LR Corinne Imbert, this tax, the amount of which…

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