Liberal doctors on strike for a massive mobilization Tuesday, February 14

2023-02-12T07:22:22.974Z

The unions plan the closing of practices, the strike of SOS doctors and a demonstration between the ministry and the Senate.

On the verge of breaking with Health Insurance and the government, liberal doctors are called to stop work on Tuesday February 14 and to demonstrate in Paris, to demand price increases and oppose a bill examined in the Senate .

The unions pulled out all the stops: closing of practices, strike by SOS Médecins and demonstration between the ministry and the Senate.

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A series of actions that says a lot about the state of relations, first and foremost with Health Insurance.

Two weeks before the end of crucial negotiations for the profession, failure has never seemed so likely.

After three months without revealing itself, the proposal for an increase of barely 1.50 euro in the basic consultation - from 25 to 26.50 euros - was experienced as "

a provocation

“We will go further next week”

Far, very far from the 50 euros demanded by the collective “

Doctors for tomorrow

”, at the origin of previous cabinet closures in early December and during the Holidays, with the support of protesting unions (UFML, FMF).

Even large organizations (MG France, CSMF), whose signature will be essential, do not expect less than 30 euros.

Also claiming "

the essential upgrading of home visits

", SOS Médecins joined the mobilization, calling on its members to stop work for 24 hours from Tuesday morning.

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Will this slingshot move the lines?

“

We will go further next week

”, already promises the director of Health Insurance, Thomas Fatôme, in an interview with

Quotidien du Médecin

But it will not be without compensation.

A “

territorial commitment

” is requested, so that practitioners take on more patients and provide more call duty in the evenings and weekends.

The Minister of Health, François Braun, does not budge: "

My objective is to meet the health needs of the population

", he affirms, saying that he hears "

the anger

" of the practitioners, "

but also that of the French who cannot find a doctor

"Two-speed medicine"

It is precisely because the offer does not meet the demand that the Parliament plans to open "

direct access

" - without medical prescription - to certain paramedics: physiotherapists, speech therapists and advanced practice nurses.

A bill, supported if not inspired by the executive, has thus passed the stage of the Assembly and will be debated Tuesday afternoon in the Senate, after a passage in committee which did not distort its content.

Worried about a possible adoption of the text, the unions will at the same time play their all-out in the streets of the capital, between the place Vauban, close to the ministry, and that of the Pantheon, very close to the upper house.

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At the beginning of January, on the reverse route, they had managed to gather between 2,300 and 4,000 demonstrators.

The gauge could be exceeded, as reinforcements have been pouring in in recent days, from their hospital colleagues from the inter-union APH to the restless internal Isni.