It is a social bomb that must be defused. The executive must calm the protest rising in public hospitals, while the epidemic has only accentuated the impatience of staff, on strike for more than a year to get beds, staffing and salary increases. But the government cannot give in to the temptation to pour billions without initiating a deep reorganization, with a budget more than ever constrained and a deficit of the Social Security which plunges back into abyssal depths at more than 40 billion euros.
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Because if the French are in favor of a revaluation of the wages of the carers, they are not ready to accept an increase in taxes, even for the hospital. Not to mention that it will also be necessary to finance the long-term care plan for the elderly, promised by the president and which can no longer be postponed. It is therefore a profound redefinition of the funding of social protection that is at stake. Trying to calm the game, Emmanuel Macron
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