Gathered against an “unfair” 2023 social security budget that imposes 250 million euros in permanent savings, biologists and analysis laboratory groups mentioned on Friday the possibility of a “general strike” as a “last resort”.
The biologists reject the sample.
In question, the “unfair and dangerous austerity project” of the Government, which contemplates in its Social Security financing bill for 2023 a permanent reduction in the prices of biologists, up to 250 million euros per year.
A measure justified by laboratory margins, already high before Covid, and increased even more during the pandemic. According to data from the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam), the turnover of the profession jumped 85% between 2019 and 2021 to exceed 9,000 million euros. Thanks in particular to the Covid tests, the profitability of the sector increased by 20% in 2020 with a margin rate of 23%.
A planned general strike
The profession has tried to pass amendments to limit the puncture to the single year 2023, but these were rejected in committee in the Assembly this week.
On the contrary, the deputies added a restriction to force them to “maintain their various sites in the territory” despite this plane hit.
“We are united and determined to go to the end,” insisted Thomas Hottier, general manager of the Inovie group.
A state of mind shared by Les Biologistes Indépendants (LBI), a network of some 600 sites that do not belong to the large groups in the sector. “Our actions will be coordinated,” says its director Charles Pax, who initially plans to “distribute brochures to the patients we receive every day.”
Source: BFM TV
