“It’s a give and take.” The Minister of Health, François Braun, spoke on France 2 about the claims of the liberal doctors who are demonstrating this Thursday in Paris. On strike for the second week in a row, they demand in particular the doubling of the consultation fee from 25 to 50 euros in order to create a “shock of attraction” towards the medicine of the city under stress.
“I am willing to increase the prices of the consultation, as soon as the needs of the French are met”, explained François Braun.
Recalling that there is currently, like every five years, “conventional negotiation between the unions of doctors and health insurance”, he judges that “each one shows the muscles to get what they want” on this occasion; but he asks to leave “this negotiation until the end”, that is, at the end of February.
“Rights and duties”
François Braun proposes a “win-win principle”. In exchange for the increase in the price of consultations, he wants the “650,000 French people who suffer from chronic diseases to have a family doctor.” And also that “we can have access to a doctor at night, on weekends and during the day.” The Minister emphasizes a logic of “rights” and “duties”.
The week before, from the Annecy hospital in Haute-Savoie, François Braun had criticized a “particularly untimely” strike, which comes at a time when the country is facing a triple epidemic of Covid-19, flu and bronchiolitis. .
Source: BFM TV
