Fight against medical deserts: private doctors ready to do anything to defend their privileges
The cross-party bill aimed at combating medical deserts returns to the National Assembly this week. This attempt to regulate the establishment of medical professionals is not going down well with private practitioners, who are prepared to do anything to prevent the bill's final adoption.
The Garot bill is back and they intend to play a trick on it. "They" are the independent doctors, almost unanimously hostile to the cross-party bill put forward by the socialist MP aimed at combating medical deserts . The main cause: its Article 1, temporarily deleted in committee before being reinstated on April 3rd in public session , which specifies wanting to "direct the installation of doctors - general practitioners and specialists - towards areas where the provision of care is insufficient" . That is, according to its zoning, 87% of the territory. The debates are due to continue this Tuesday in the National Assembly.
Problem: this proposal is synonymous with heresy for the organizations representing the sector, which cling stubbornly to the sacrosanct principle of "freedom of establishment" - even though it has barely been scratched by this attempt at regulation. "It's unheard of, we are not pawns on a chessboard," laments Sophie Bauer, president of the Union of Independent Doctors (SML). "The solution is incentives, by creating the conditions for peaceful practice in under-resourced areas," adds Jean-Paul Hamon, honorary president of the Federation of Doctors of France.
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