After two months of fighting over the Social Security budget, the unions of biologists called a new “renewable strike” on Thursday as of December 1, considering that they had not received “any concrete response” from the Health Insurance to their last proposal.
Received at the Health Insurance on Monday, after their three-day strike last week, the four unions of liberal biologists had presented a “compromise” to their interlocutor, demanding a response no later than Wednesday night.
Faced with the “permanent planning coup” of 250 million euros per year – included in the Social Security budget (PLFSS) for 2023 – they consented to a drain of the same amount next year, reduced to 145 million in 2024 to 2026.
But at the end of their ultimatum, they regret not having received “any concrete answer”, in a letter of which AFP obtained a copy.
The hope of exchanges between the two camps.
The director of the Health Insurance, Thomas Fatôme, however, welcomed their “strong commitments”, while hoping that the exchanges could “continue to allow the achievement of the objective set” in the PLFSS, according to another letter.
Too little for the biologists, who demand “a written and quantified return to (their) proposal” before resuming the discussions and consider that they have “no other option” than “go on a renewable strike from December 1.”
A date chosen in order to “join the movement started by other health professions”, in particular liberal doctors, most of whose unions call for the closure of practices on December 1 and 2.
Contacted, Seguros de Salud “regrets this new call for a strike that can only complicate the lives of patients and their access to care”, while “the proposals of the biologists went in the right direction” and that it has “proposed a new meeting”. next Tuesday”.
Source: BFM TV
