Engaged for more than a month in a confrontation with the government, which wants to impose lower prices on them through the Social Security budget, the biologists called on Monday night for a “renewable strike” starting on November 14.
The last chance encounter is over. Received at the end of the day at the Health Insurance headquarters, the representatives of the liberal biologists “hit a wall,” say their four unions.
They denounce “austerity madness”
They manage to negotiate a puncture limited to 250 million euros, as foreseen in the Social Security budget, but “only in the year 2023”, they explain that they have instead received “a new proposal for an even saltier plane than the initially planned”: 280 million next year, then 322 million per year until 2026.
Denouncing “the madness of austerity” of Health Insurance, they ask for “the renewable strike of all medical biology laboratories as of Monday, November 14” and hope that the large private networks will follow, members like them of Medical Biology Alliance (Biogroup, Cerba, Eurofins, Inovie, Synlab).
“This blind planning policy will lead to the closure of local laboratories, particularly in rural areas and medical deserts,” they add, warning Ministers François Braun (Health) and Gabriel Attal (Public Accounts) against “the risk of a general mobilization Of the health”. liberals.”
However, the executive seems reluctant to change his mind. The government spokesman, Olivier Véran, declared this Sunday that “there will be no going back” in the savings included in the Social Security budget and that “there is no need to review this position.”
Source: BFM TV
