In the government viewfinder to reduce your expenses: health. After the presentation of a recovery of the public finances of François Bayrou on July 15, said Minister of Labor and Health Catherine Vautrin in an interview in the world her trails to limit the expenses.
One of the emblematic measures refers to Maladia, whose duration wishes to limit during the first prescription of general professionals. “We want to limit any first work strike prescribed in city medicine to 15 days; today there is no maximum duration,” said the minister in this interview.
This clue idea, which is more widely part of a 5.5 billion section, made specialists jump. “It is a planning on all floors, is it our health system in a state that justifies it? Obviously not. Our health system is in a deep crisis because it is not suitable for its environment,” said BFMTV Frédéric Bizard, specialist economist and teacher in ESCP.
“I think we are wrong”
On the side of the caregivers, there is nonsense at the medical level. “Minister Catherine Vautrin does not seem to know that the high author’s authority for health recommendations for a certain number of pathologies is three weeks or more. And that these durations suggested in spacecraft when one stops online work,” he says about X Richard Talbot, treasurer of the Federation of Physicians of France.
“I think we are wrong, we know and the CNAM (National Health Insurance Fund, Editor’s Note) recalled it in his report, these are the long stops that are problematic, these are those that will cost the most in terms of daily assignments, so it is about these vectors that must be acted,” also advanced in BFMTV Fabienne Yvon, general generalists.
“If parents are arrested for longer, it is because there is a reality behind and a medical justification,” he said.
“End the abuses,” really?
In her interview with the newspaper Le Monde, Minister Catherine Vautrin significantly advances the need to “end the abuses” on the issue of judgments. “As a reminder, the controls that have been carried out in stops for more than eighteen months have shown that, for 50% of them, these judgments were no longer justified,” said Catherine Vautrin.
What is the scale of the phenomenon? In 2024, health insurance detected and stopped a small sum of 42 million euros in fraud linked to labor stops, in a global envelope of 16 billion.
In addition, according to doctor Yhan Sannac, vice president of MG France, the figure presented in “more justified” stops is inaccurate. “We received that with trouble, we still find the elements of language the fact that a work arrest of more than 18 months would be completely abusive, this is deeply false,” he denounced in BFMTV. He explains that among the people whose judgment was no longer justified, “Part is a part under the disability regime,” his health status was considered too worrying.
“We have moved the expense, but these people have not disappeared and are sick,” he replied to the minister.
The impulse of the expenses criticized by Thomas Fatôme, the general director of the CNAM, remains mainly caused by other factors that “abuses”, as explained by a CNAM report.
This phenomenon of the multiplication of judgments “is explained by many situations and, in particular, the discomfort in work and the lack of recognition; the real or perceived lack of professional perspectives; the aging of the salaried population that induces an increase in the number of sick employees during their career, the disconnection of certain employees who would abuse work, explains,” he explains.
For Magali Leo, Moipatient coordinator, a federation of patient associations, the main effect of these changes can be a “new pressure that will weigh on sick employees”, forced to multiply meetings with these health professionals.
Source: BFM TV
